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.
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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
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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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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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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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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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