As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
MALCOLM XYou and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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 our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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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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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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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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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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