Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
MALCOLM XUsually 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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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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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else 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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