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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.

— Malcolm X By Any Means Necessary (1970)

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You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

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If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

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