Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
MALCOLM XUsually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Some things are better done than said.
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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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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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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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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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 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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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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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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