We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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More Malcolm X Quotes
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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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 man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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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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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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I 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.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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