Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
MALCOLM XYou 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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How can anyone be against love?
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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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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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The price of freedom is death.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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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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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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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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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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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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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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