Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
MALCOLM XEducation is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
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How can anyone be against love?
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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 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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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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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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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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