Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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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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