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?
MALCOLM XHow can anyone be against love?
More Malcolm X Quotes
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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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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I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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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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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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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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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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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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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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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 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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