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.
MALCOLM XHow can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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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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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 need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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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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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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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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