If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
MALCOLM XYou can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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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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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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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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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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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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Stumbling is not falling.
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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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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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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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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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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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