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1 " People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book. "
― Malcolm X
2 " So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise. "
― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X
3 " 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. "
― Malcolm X , By Any Means Necessary
4 " You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker "
5 " The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too. "
6 " 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. "
7 " Truth is on the side of the oppressed. "
8 " 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. "
― Malcolm X , Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
9 " Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. "
10 " I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… 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. "
11 " Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. "
12 " It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be forthright; it has separated believers on the basis of color, although it has declared its mission to be a universal brotherhood under Jesus Christ. Christian love is the white man's love for himself and for his race. "
13 " 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. "
14 " Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. "
15 " I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that. "
16 " An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books. "
17 " This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely. "
18 " My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. "
19 " The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. "
20 " 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. "
