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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.

Malcolm X

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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Business Enemy Freedom Success Work Hard
Stumbling is not falling.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Stumble
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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Gun Peace Struggle Violence War
Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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According Change Objective Politics Program
Revolutions are never peaceful.
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One Liner Peace Revolution
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 a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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Business Children Enemy Fools Teaching
A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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Acquire Believe Freedom Man Preserve Sun
Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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Born Earth Gift God Human Nation Recognize Right
I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Defense Intelligence Violence
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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Creation Each Other Inspirational Light Love Need Patience Understand Unity
As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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Convince Done Motivational
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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Deep Mistake Remember Sincere Want Wrong
History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Animal History Man Memories People
The price of freedom is death.
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Death Freedom One Liner Price
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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Change Complete Example Man Motivational Myself Struggle
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
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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Control Earth Entity Guilty Innocent Mass Media Mind Power Powerful
You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Deep Hate Racism Root Tree
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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Action Goals Mistake Movement Organize People Sleep Try Wake Up
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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Against Benefit Human Humanity Justice Matter Truth
My sincerity is my credentials.
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One Liner Sincere
Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Anger Hatred Inspirational Kindness Meet Power
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
We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
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Boat Catch Hell Man
Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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Complete Equality Freedom Justice Necessary Objective
Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Education Element Human Right Struggle

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