We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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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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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Some things are better done than said.
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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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