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Malcolm X
“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it...
“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
“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 whe...
“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to w...
“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are ...
“Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new...
“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 an...
“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
“I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe tha...
“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had...
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adult...
