You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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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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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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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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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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The price of freedom is death.
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