The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
MALCOLM XEducation is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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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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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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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