We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
MALCOLM XIn all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
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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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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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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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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 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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