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“Education is our passport to the
future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
- Malcolm X |
“One day, may we all meet together in
the light of understanding.”
- Malcolm X |
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“You're not to be so blind with
patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it
or says it.”
- Malcolm X, |
“My alma mater was books, a good
library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my
curiosity.”
- Malcolm X |
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“Who taught you to hate yourself?”
- Malcolm X |
“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up
to put the Gun down.”
- Malcolm X |
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“People don't realize how a man's
whole life can be changed by one book.”
- Malcolm X |
“If someone puts their hands on you
make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
- Malcolm X |
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“To me, the thing that is worse than
death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive
betrayal.”
- Malcolm X |
“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the
law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the
cemetery.”
- Malcolm X |
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“We cannot think of being acceptable
to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
- Malcolm X |
“You show me a capitalist, and I'll
show you a bloodsucker”
- Malcolm X |
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“So early in my life, I had learned
that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
- Malcolm X |
“If you have no critics you'll likely
have no success. ”
- Malcolm X |
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“Truth is on the side of the
oppressed.”
- Malcolm X |
“To have once been a criminal is no
disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace”
- Malcolm X |
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“If you're not ready to die for it,
take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”
- Malcolm X |
“The ability to read awoke inside of
me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
- Malcolm X |
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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.”
- Malcolm X |
“I see America through the eyes of
the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.”
- Malcolm X |
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“I don't even call it violence when
it's in self-defence; I call it intelligence.”
- Malcolm X |
“As long as you are convinced you
have never done anything, you can never do anything.”
- Malcolm X |
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“The future belongs to those who
prepare for it today.”
- Malcolm X |
“By any means necessary.”
- Malcolm X |
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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.”
- Malcolm X |
“It is only after slavery and prison
that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. ”
- Malcolm X |
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“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”
- Malcolm X |
“And just because you have colleges
and universities doesn't mean you have education.”
- Malcolm X |
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“I'm for truth, no matter who tells
it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.”
- Malcolm X |
“I don't advocate violence; but if a
man steps on my toes, I'll step on his...”
- Malcolm X |
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“Only the mistakes were mine.”
- Malcolm X |
“They cripple the bird's wing, and
then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.”
- Malcolm X |
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“Western interests: imperialism,
coloniali sm, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.”
- Malcolm X |
“History is a people's memory, and
without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.”
- Malcolm X |
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“If you don’t stand for something you
fall for everything.”
- Malcolm X |
“You can't have capitalism without
racism.”
- Malcolm X |
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“To tell a woman not to talk too much
was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.”
- Malcolm X |
“I believe in human beings, and that
all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their colour”
- Malcolm X |
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“I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was
Firmly Corrected”
- Malcolm X |
“I don't see any American dream; I
see an American nightmare.”
- Malcolm X |
