Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
MALCOLM XOne day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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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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Some things are better done than said.
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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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A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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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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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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