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.
MALCOLM X
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?
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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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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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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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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