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.
MALCOLM XI’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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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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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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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