Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
MALCOLM XYou and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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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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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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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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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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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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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?
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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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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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