You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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More Malcolm X Quotes
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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How can anyone be against love?
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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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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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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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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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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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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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
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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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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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Some things are better done than said.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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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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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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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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