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.
MALCOLM XIn all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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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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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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 only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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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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Some things are better done than said.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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