Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
MALCOLM XThe 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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The price of freedom is death.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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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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