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?
MALCOLM XThe only thing power respects, is power.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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How can anyone be against love?
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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The price of freedom is death.
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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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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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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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