People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
MALCOLM XWhen ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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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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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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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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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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