You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
MALCOLM XTo have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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