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?
MALCOLM XRevolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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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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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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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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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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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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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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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’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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