Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
MALCOLM XWhen ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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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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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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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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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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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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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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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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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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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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.
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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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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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