Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
MALCOLM XThe 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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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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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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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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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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