To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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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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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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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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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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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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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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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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How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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Reading 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.
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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The price of freedom is death.
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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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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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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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