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Firsts Quotes by Malcolm X
- One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think…
- The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to…
- That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly…
- And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might…
- I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man…
- There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first…
- The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
- In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of…
- America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
- No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is…
- 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…
- We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
- 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,…
- 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…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour