Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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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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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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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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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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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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