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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More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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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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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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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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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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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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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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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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