We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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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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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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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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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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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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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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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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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?
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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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