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.
MALCOLM XIf you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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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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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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