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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Malcolm X

I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Defense Intelligence Violence
Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Education Element Human Right Struggle
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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Business Enemy Freedom Success Work Hard
Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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Contain Hunt Hunter Jungle Man Remember Revenge
When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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Deep Ill Inspirational Team Work Togetherness
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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Born Earth Gift God Human Nation Recognize Right
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Crime Disgrace
The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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Freedom History Identity Ourselves People Politics World
As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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Convince Done Motivational
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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Certificate Change Course Gain Improvement Intellect Life Position Reading
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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Adversity Broken Heart Contain Improvement Lesson Loss Performance Seed Time
You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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Capital Racism
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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Brutal Hands Police Solitude Sure Violence
Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Culture Freedom Indispensable Struggle Weapon
We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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Non Violence People Self Respect
Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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Culture Dead History People Root Tree

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