If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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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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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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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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Some things are better done than said.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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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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