People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
MALCOLM XHistory is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
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