The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
MALCOLM XWho taught you to hate yourself?
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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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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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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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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.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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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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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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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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