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“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“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
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“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.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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