Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
MALCOLM XI 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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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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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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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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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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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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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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