I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
MALCOLM XThere can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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Some things are better done than said.
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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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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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How can anyone be against love?
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