A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
MALCOLM X
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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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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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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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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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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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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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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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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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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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