So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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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Some things are better done than said.
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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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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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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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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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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How can anyone be against love?
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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