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 XIn fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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