A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
MALCOLM XSometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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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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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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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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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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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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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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