I’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.
MALCOLM XWe cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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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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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 price of freedom is death.
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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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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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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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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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