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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.

Malcolm X

History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Animal History Man Memories People
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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Belong Education Future Passport People Preparation Present
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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Angry Change Condition Cry People Sad
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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Adult Children Failure Inspirational Learning Lesson Shame Try
There 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.
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Adversity Broken Heart Contain Improvement Lesson Loss Performance Seed Time
Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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Born Earth Gift God Human Nation Recognize Right
I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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Person Positive Sincere
You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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Democracy Politics
If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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Criticism Freedom Inspirational Success
People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Book Change Inspirational Life Man People Realize
If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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Black Lives Matter Equality Justice
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
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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Culture Express Fulfillment History Individual Man People Pride Race Talent
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
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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Deep Man Philosophy Thankful Yourself
There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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Black Black Lives Matter Unity White

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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