The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
MALCOLM XHuman 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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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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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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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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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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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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Some things are better done than said.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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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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