A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
MALCOLM XThe ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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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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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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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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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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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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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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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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