So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
MALCOLM XRevolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Some things are better done than said.
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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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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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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 media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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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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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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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 mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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