People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
MALCOLM XRead absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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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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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
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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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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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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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