I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
MALCOLM XMankind’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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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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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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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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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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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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 want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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