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.
MALCOLM XReading 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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 advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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