Stumbling is not falling.
MALCOLM XIf 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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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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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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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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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My sincerity is my credentials.
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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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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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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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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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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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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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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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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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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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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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