Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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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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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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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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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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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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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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