To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
MALCOLM XOne day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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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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The only thing power respects, is power.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
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The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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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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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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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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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 an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Some things are better done than said.
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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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