To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
MALCOLM XWe need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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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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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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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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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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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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