And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
MALCOLM XEducation is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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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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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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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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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.
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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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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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