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.
MALCOLM XYou can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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?
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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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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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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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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My sincerity is my credentials.
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I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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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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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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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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