Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
MALCOLM XWe need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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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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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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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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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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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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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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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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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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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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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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