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 XAll over this world people are standing up for freedom.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Some things are better done than said.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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Anytime 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.
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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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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 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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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