Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
MALCOLM XAnytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
MALCOLM XI want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
MALCOLM XThere 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.
MALCOLM XYou don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
MALCOLM XReading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
MALCOLM XEducation is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
MALCOLM XIf you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
MALCOLM XPolicies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
MALCOLM XThe only thing power respects, is power.
MALCOLM XSo early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
MALCOLM XA man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
MALCOLM XThose who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
MALCOLM XIf you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
MALCOLM XI don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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.
MALCOLM XYou show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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