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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.

Malcolm X

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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Action Goals Mistake Movement Organize People Sleep Try Wake Up
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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Belong Education Future Passport People Preparation Present
Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Culture Freedom Indispensable Struggle Weapon
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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Argument Mathematics Mistake Reason Subject
I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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Advocate Man Step Toe Violence
If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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Criticism Freedom Inspirational Success
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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Book Hands Ideas Knowledge Reading
When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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Deep Ill Inspirational Team Work Togetherness
History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Animal History Man Memories People
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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Business Competition Engagement Especially Success
All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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Experience Fuse Happen Ingredient Inspirational Personality
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Ability Awake Book Crave Inside Reading
As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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Convince Done Motivational
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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Acceptance Battle Believe Fight Freedom Hell People Religion
Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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Complete Equality Freedom Justice Necessary Objective
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Crime Disgrace
I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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Deep Mistake Remember Sincere Want Wrong
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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Born Earth Gift God Human Nation Recognize Right
Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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Angry Change Condition Cry People Sad
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Courtesy Law Obey Peace Respect Violence
The price of freedom is death.
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Death Freedom One Liner Price
Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Anger Hatred Inspirational Kindness Meet Power
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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Attitude Believe Brotherhood Man Self Respect
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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Black Lives Matter Compassion Crush Mercy Penalize People Racism Society Violence Weight
In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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Change Complete Example Man Motivational Myself Struggle
Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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History Qualification Research Reward Study
Revolutions are never peaceful.
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One Liner Peace Revolution

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