Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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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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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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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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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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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