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96 quotes by Malcolm X

Malcolm X (/ˈmælkəm ˈɛks/; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz[A] (Arabic: الحاج مالك الشباز ), was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching...
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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 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... →

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your... →

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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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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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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe... →

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

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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.

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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

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