Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
MALCOLM XWe’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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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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The price of freedom is death.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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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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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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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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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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