Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
MALCOLM XThose who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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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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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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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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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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The price of freedom is death.
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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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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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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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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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