Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
MALCOLM XEducation is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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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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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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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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A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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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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