The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
MALCOLM XWe are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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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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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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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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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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