You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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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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Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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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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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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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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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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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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