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    Malcolm X
    “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 in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment”
    ― Malcolm X
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    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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    Malcolm X
    “We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: activism
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    Malcolm X
    “لقد غيرت القراءة مجرى حياتي تغييراً جذرياً ولم أكن أهدف من ورائها الى كسب أية شهادات لتحسين مركزي وانما كنت اريد ان احيا فكريا.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: books, change, malcom-x, reading
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    Malcolm X
    “Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from
    Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: experience, personality
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    Malcolm X
    “The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Malcolm X
    “The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: books, literature, living, reading, words
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    Malcolm X
    “To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: crime
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    Malcolm X
    “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 X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “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.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: truth
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    Malcolm X
    “If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. ”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “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.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].
    tags: accomplishment, action, impetus, inspirational
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    Malcolm X
    “You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Malcolm X
    “Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: 1965, anger
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    Malcolm X
    “We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: freedom, self-worth
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    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
    tags: islam, militancy
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    Malcolm X
    “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
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    Malcolm X
    “If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
    ― Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: force, police-brutality, power, resistance, solidarity, violence
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  • #25
    Malcolm X
    “People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: books, inspirational, literacy, religious
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    Malcolm X
    “Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: armed-struggle, arms, pacifism, peace, revolution, violence, war
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  • #27
    Malcolm X
    “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: education, future
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    Malcolm X
    “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.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: activism, truth
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    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
    tags: books, reading
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    Malcolm X
    “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, By Any Means Necessary
    tags: philosophy, politics
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