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

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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

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There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

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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

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My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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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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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.

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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

[Malcolm X @MalcolmXQuote]

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

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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.