Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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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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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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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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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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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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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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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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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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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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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