The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

Malcolm X
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to...
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to...
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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action. One of the things that our generation has done is to wake up and find that we’re not able to go back to sleep. We’ve come to realize that we can’t go back to sleep and we aren’t going to be able to.

If we do, we will never rise out of our slumber. We can’t go back because we have made so many mistakes that we can’t settle for those mistakes anymore. We need a fresh start-a new beginning-and that means a total change in how we will fight for change from now on.

Source: Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches And Statements

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