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?
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.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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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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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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 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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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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