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.
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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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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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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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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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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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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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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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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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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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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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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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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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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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