There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

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