If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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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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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 have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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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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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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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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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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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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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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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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