Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
MALCOLM XAnytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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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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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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I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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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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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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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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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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