Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
MALCOLM XEducation is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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 not now then when, if not me then who?
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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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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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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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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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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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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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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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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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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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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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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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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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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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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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 you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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