We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
MALCOLM XIf you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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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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 ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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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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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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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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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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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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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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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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