To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
MALCOLM XYou show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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 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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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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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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