Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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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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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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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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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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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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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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We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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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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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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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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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