Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
MALCOLM XThe mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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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 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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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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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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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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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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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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