I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
MALCOLM XHatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Stumbling is not falling.
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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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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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The price of freedom is death.
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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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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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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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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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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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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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