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.
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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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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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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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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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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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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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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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