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.
MALCOLM XJust as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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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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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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