Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
MALCOLM XI could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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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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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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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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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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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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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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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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