People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
MALCOLM XThe future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Reading 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.
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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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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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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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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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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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