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.
MALCOLM XPeople don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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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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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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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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Stumbling is not falling.
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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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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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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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