Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
MALCOLM XThere 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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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 only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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