If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
MALCOLM XChildren have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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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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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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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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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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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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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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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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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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