History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
MALCOLM XI don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Some things are better done than said.
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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 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.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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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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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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