The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
MALCOLM XRespect me, or put me to death.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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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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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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Some things are better done than said.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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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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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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