Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
MALCOLM XThe price of freedom is death.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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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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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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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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The price of freedom is death.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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