Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
MALCOLM XIf 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Stumbling is not falling.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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.
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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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 performance the next time.
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A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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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.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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