Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
MALCOLM XTo have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
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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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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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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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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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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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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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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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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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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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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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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 have capitalism without racism.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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How can anyone be against love?
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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