To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
MALCOLM XAll of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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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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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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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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How can anyone be against love?
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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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