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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.

Malcolm X

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
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
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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Accomplishment Inspirational Learning Life Noise Want Work Hard
You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
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Business Enemy Freedom Success Work Hard
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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Gun Peace Struggle Violence War
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.
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Come Darkness Extreme Grief Joy Light
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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Equality Freedom Independence Justice Land Revolution
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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Deep Man Philosophy Thankful Yourself
I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Defense Intelligence Violence
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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Black Lives Matter Equality Justice
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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Care Hate Love Newspaper Oppress People
When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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Deep Ill Inspirational Team Work Togetherness
Respect me, or put me to death.
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Death One Liner Self Respect
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
We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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Non Violence People Self Respect
If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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Criticism Freedom Inspirational Success

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