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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Malcolm X

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Crime Disgrace
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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Brutal Hands Police Solitude Sure Violence
Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
MALCOLM X

Education Element Human Right Struggle
We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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Non Violence People Self Respect
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.
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Action Goals Mistake Movement Organize People Sleep Try Wake Up
If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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Die Freedom Motivational Ready Work Hard
History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Animal History Man Memories People
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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Change Complete Example Man Motivational Myself Struggle
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.
MALCOLM X

Adversity Broken Heart Contain Improvement Lesson Loss Performance Seed Time
When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
MALCOLM X

Deep Ill Inspirational Team Work Togetherness
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.
MALCOLM X

Business Competition Engagement Especially Success
Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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Effective Experience Help Inspirational Revolution
The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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Change Enable Flexible Himself Man Mental Necessary Open Minded Permit
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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Freedom Inspirational Peace Positive Separate
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.
MALCOLM X

Black Lives Matter Equality Justice
You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
MALCOLM X

Blood Capital Community Democracy Politics

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