Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
MALCOLM XReading 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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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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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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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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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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