The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.
MALCOLM XStumbling is not falling.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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 don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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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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Usually 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.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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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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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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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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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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