Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
MALCOLM XYou can’t have capitalism without racism.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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How 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?
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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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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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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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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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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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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