Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
MALCOLM XYou can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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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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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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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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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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The price of freedom is death.
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