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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.

Malcolm X

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Crime Disgrace
If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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Black Lives Matter Equality Justice
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
MALCOLM X

Adult Children Failure Inspirational Learning Lesson Shame Try
Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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Inspirational Learning Listen One Liner Thinking Yourself
The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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Freedom History Identity Ourselves People Politics World
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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Accomplishment Inspirational Learning Life Noise Want Work Hard
You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Deep Hate Racism Root Tree
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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Acceptance Battle Believe Fight Freedom Hell People Religion
If not now then when, if not me then who?
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Business Inspirational One Liner Time Work Hard
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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Business Enemy Freedom Success Work Hard
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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Against Benefit Human Humanity Justice Matter Truth
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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Book Hands Ideas Knowledge Reading
One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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Life Light Meet Positive Togetherness Understand
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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Freedom Inspirational Peace Positive Separate
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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Children Giving Inspirational Message Mother Teacher World
A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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Acquire Believe Freedom Man Preserve Sun
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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Born Earth Gift God Human Nation Recognize Right
It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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Death Freedom Liberty
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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Boat Catch Hell Man
Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Culture Freedom Indispensable Struggle Weapon
You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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Democracy Politics
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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Angel Come Devil Man Respect Stand Wrong
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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Culture Express Fulfillment History Individual Man People Pride Race Talent
History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Animal History Man Memories People
Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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Contain Hunt Hunter Jungle Man Remember Revenge
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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Adult Children Failure Inspirational Learning Lesson Shame Try
Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
MALCOLM X

Culture Dead History People Root Tree

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