The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
MALCOLM XThe 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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The price of freedom is death.
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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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Some things are better done than said.
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How can anyone be against love?
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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 could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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