The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
MALCOLM XAll of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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How 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?
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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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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