Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
MALCOLM XThe mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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Some things are better done than said.
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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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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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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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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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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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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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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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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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Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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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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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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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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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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