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.
MALCOLM XHow 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?
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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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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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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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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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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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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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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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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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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