Tao Te Ching
Malcolm X الحاجّ مالك الشباز
1925 – 1965 CE
One of the most influential African Americans in all history, human rights activist, Sunni Muslim minister, the main inspiration behind “Black is Beautiful” sub-cultural esteem building, reconnection to African heritage, and the Black Power movement; Malcolm X grew up an orphan and was soon in jail where he joined the Nation of Islam and soon became its’ public face and one of its’ main leaders. He helped many good causes including a drug rehabilitation program but became disillusioned with the group’s black supremacist and anti-integration stand. He opposed both white and black racism making him a target for both groups leading to his assassination by Nation of Islam extremists.
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Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Quotes by Malcolm X (20 quotes)
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice... there's only one way to be free.”
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“One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.”
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“No one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom.”
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“Show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.”
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“As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.”
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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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“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
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“There is nothing better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve the next time.”
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“There is nothing better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve the next time.”
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“Don't be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
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“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”
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“If being a communist or being a capitalist or being a socialist is a crime, first you have to study which of those systems is the most criminal. And then you'll be slow to say which one should be in jail.”
from Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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“Culture is simply how one lives and is connected to history by habit.”
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“Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.”
from Autobiography of Malcolm X
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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.”
from Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
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