The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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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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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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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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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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Mankind’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.
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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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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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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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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The price of freedom is death.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Some things are better done than said.
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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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The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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