Revolutions are never peaceful.
MALCOLM XOf all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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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’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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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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