Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
MALCOLM XConcerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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How can anyone be against love?
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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