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?
MALCOLM XIt is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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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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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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The price of freedom is death.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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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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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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