Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
MALCOLM XYou can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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The 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.
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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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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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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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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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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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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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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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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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