If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
MALCOLM XAll of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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The price of freedom is death.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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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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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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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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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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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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