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?
MALCOLM XYou and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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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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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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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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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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