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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.

Malcolm X

Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Children Education Help Increase Self Respect
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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Care Hate Love Newspaper Oppress People
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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Anxiety Attract Era Force History Leadership Love Mankind Men Power Prove Spirit Spiritual
Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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Contain Hunt Hunter Jungle Man Remember Revenge
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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Black Lives Matter Compassion Crush Mercy Penalize People Racism Society Violence Weight
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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Brutal Hands Police Solitude Sure Violence
The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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Control Earth Entity Guilty Innocent Mass Media Mind Power Powerful
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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Betrayal Concieve Death Deep Worse
A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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Acquire Believe Freedom Man Preserve Sun
You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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Blood Capital Community Democracy Politics
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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Argument Mathematics Mistake Reason Subject
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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Boat Catch Hell Man
Stumbling is not falling.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Stumble
I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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Person Positive Sincere
Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Anger Hatred Inspirational Kindness Meet Power
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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Action Goals Mistake Movement Organize People Sleep Try Wake Up

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