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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.”
- “My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
- “Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourselves.”
- “I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
"Stop sweet-talking [the white man]. Tell him how you feel.... [Let him know that] if he's not ready to clean his house up, he shouldn't have a house. It should catch on fire and burn down." —...
May 19, 2015 · We hear Malcolm X in his words speaking in 1964 — half a year before his assassination — delivering his famed speech, “By Any Means Necessary.”
"We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary."
By any means necessary is an English phrase, or a translation of a French phrase that has been attributed to at least three famous sources. The earliest of these three sources is French leftist intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre in his 1948 play Dirty Hands where he used a French equivalent of the phrase. The second is Martinican anticolonialist ...
May 17, 2016 · In his brief life (he was killed at age 39), Malcolm X — née Malcolm Little — spearheaded a civil rights movement that challenged mainstream movements championed by Martin Luther King Jr., mainly in terms of his “by any means necessary” approach to effecting systemic change.
