Revolutions are never peaceful.
MALCOLM XTo me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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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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How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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Mankind’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.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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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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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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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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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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