You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
MALCOLM XThe future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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The price of freedom is 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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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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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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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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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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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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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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