We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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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.
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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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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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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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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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In 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.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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