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 XIgnorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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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 need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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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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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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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.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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