To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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 don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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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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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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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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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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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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