As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
MALCOLM XChildren have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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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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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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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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How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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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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