Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
MALCOLM XRevolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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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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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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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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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.
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