The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
MALCOLM XMankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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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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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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