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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
Malcolm XMalcolm X The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
Malcolm XMalcolm X You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Malcolm XMalcolm X My sincerity is my credentials.
Malcolm XMalcolm X If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
Malcolm XMalcolm X 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.
Malcolm XMalcolm X I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm XMalcolm X Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
Malcolm XMalcolm X As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
Malcolm XMalcolm X It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
Malcolm XMalcolm X Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
Malcolm XMalcolm X Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Malcolm XMalcolm X Who taught you to hate yourself?
Malcolm XMalcolm X I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
Malcolm XMalcolm X And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
Malcolm XMalcolm X If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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