The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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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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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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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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