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 XAnytime 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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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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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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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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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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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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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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