We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
MALCOLM XWe are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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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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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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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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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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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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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
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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’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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