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.
MALCOLM XRespect me, or put me to death.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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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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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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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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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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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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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 mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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