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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.

Malcolm X

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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Book Hands Ideas Knowledge Reading
You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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Blind Face Matter Patriotism Politics Reality Wrong
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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Anxiety Attract Era Force History Leadership Love Mankind Men Power Prove Spirit Spiritual
My sincerity is my credentials.
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One Liner Sincere
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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Accomplishment Inspirational Learning Life Noise Want Work Hard
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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Acceptance Inspirational Ourselves Prove Self Love Thinking
I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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Person Positive Sincere
I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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Angel Come Devil Man Respect Stand Wrong
The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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Change History Inspirational Men Person Thinking
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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Certificate Change Course Gain Improvement Intellect Life Position Reading
It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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Death Freedom Liberty
If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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Black Lives Matter Equality Justice
Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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Effective Experience Help Inspirational Revolution
Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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Culture Dead History People Root Tree
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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Clown Man Play Wise
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Ability Awake Book Crave Inside Reading

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