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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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Belong Education Future Passport People Preparation Present
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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Deep Mistake Remember Sincere Want Wrong
Who taught you to hate yourself?
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Hate Teaching Yourself
Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Culture Freedom Indispensable Struggle Weapon
You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Deep Hate Racism Root Tree
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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Deep Man Philosophy Thankful Yourself
I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Defense Intelligence Violence
Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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According Change Objective Politics Program
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
People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Book Change Inspirational Life Man People Realize
Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
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Anxiety Attract Era Force History Leadership Love Mankind Men Power Prove Spirit Spiritual
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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Come Darkness Extreme Grief Joy Light
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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Action Goals Mistake Movement Organize People Sleep Try Wake Up
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
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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Book Hands Ideas Knowledge Reading
It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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Death Freedom Liberty

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