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.
MALCOLM XI 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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