History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
MALCOLM XOf all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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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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Stumbling is not falling.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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