If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
MALCOLM XI’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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How can anyone be against love?
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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.
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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