We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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