“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
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“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.”
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“عندما تغير فلسفتك تغير طريقة تفكيرك .. وعندما تغير طريقة تفكيرك تغير مواقفك .. وعندما تغير مواقفك تغير سلوكك , وهنا .. تستطيع الشروع في العمل الجاد”
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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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“Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better."
-said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
-said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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