The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
MALCOLM XThere can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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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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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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How can anyone be against love?
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Stumbling is not falling.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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