I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
MALCOLM XYou can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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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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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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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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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