The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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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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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.
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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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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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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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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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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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