And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
MALCOLM XYou don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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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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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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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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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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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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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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