Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
MALCOLM XRevolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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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’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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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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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
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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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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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