Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
MALCOLM XEducation is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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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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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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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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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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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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The price of freedom is death.
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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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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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