If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
MALCOLM XThe ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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.
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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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