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When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it's a very vicious cycle. ― Malcolm X
Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself. ― Malcolm X
Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together. —Diane McLaren
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X
Tribalism is community for lonely narcissists. ― David Brooks
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man. ― Malcolm X
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. ― Malcolm X
When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community. - Dolores Huerta
But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ― Bell Hooks
