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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?

Malcolm X

Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
MALCOLM X

Inspirational Learning Listen One Liner Thinking Yourself
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.
MALCOLM X

Control Earth Entity Guilty Innocent Mass Media Mind Power Powerful
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.
MALCOLM X

Certificate Change Course Gain Improvement Intellect Life Position Reading
Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
MALCOLM X

Each Other Ignorance Impossible Past Unity
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.
MALCOLM X

Argument Mathematics Mistake Reason Subject
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.
MALCOLM X

Culture Express Fulfillment History Individual Man People Pride Race Talent
We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
MALCOLM X

Boat Catch Hell Man
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
MALCOLM X

Freedom Inspirational Peace Positive Separate
Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
MALCOLM X

Culture Freedom Indispensable Struggle Weapon
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
MALCOLM X

Book Hands Ideas Knowledge Reading
The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
MALCOLM X

Freedom History Identity Ourselves People Politics World
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
MALCOLM X

Connection Government People Revolution
Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
MALCOLM X

Anger Hatred Inspirational Kindness Meet Power
I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
MALCOLM X

Advocate Man Step Toe Violence
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.
MALCOLM X

Come Darkness Extreme Grief Joy Light
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
MALCOLM X

Attitude Equality Freedom Giving Justice Man

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