Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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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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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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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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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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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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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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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
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The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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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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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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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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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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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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