Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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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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