If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
MALCOLM XEducation is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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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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Stumbling is not falling.
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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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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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