Quotes - Mai Badawy (mai_badawy) (Canada) Showing 1-30 of 68

#1

“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 foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

tags: activism, truth

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#2

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

tags: education, future

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#3

“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

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#4

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
― Malcolm X

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#5

“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
― Malcolm X

tags: freedom, self-worth

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#6

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].

tags: accomplishment, action, impetus, inspirational

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#7

“Hence 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.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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#8

“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
― Malcolm X

tags: truth

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#9

“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

tags: books, literature, living, reading, words

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#10

“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”
― Malcolm X

tags: condemnation, knowledge, tolerance, understanding

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#11

“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
― Malcolm X

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#12

“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.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

tags: failure, fear, middle-age, perseverance

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#13

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

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#14

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

tags: assertiveness, malcolm-x, willpower

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#15

“Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

tags: competition, tactics

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#16

“You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.”
― Malcolm X

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#17

“Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease”
― Malcolm X

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#18

“No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition whites show towards me…as long as that same respect and recognition isn’t shown towards everyone of our people in this country–it doesn’t exist for me.”
― Malcolm X

tags: race, social-justice

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#19

“من الغريب أن يكون أحب الناس إلينا أقدرهم على تشويش حياتنا”
― جبران خليل جبران

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#20

“بين منطوق لم يُقصَد، ومقصود لم يُنطَق، تضيع الكثير من المحبة.”
― جبران خليل جبران

tags: حب, محبة

1271 likes

#21

“ليس الجود أن تعطيني ما أنا أشدّ منك حاجة إليه ، وإنما الجود أن تعطيني ما أنت أشدّ إليه حاجة مني”
― جبران خليل جبران, الأجنحة المتكسرة

tags: الإخلاص, الجود, الحب, السخاء, الصداقة, العطاء, الوفاء

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#22

“ليتني طفل لا يكبر أبدا ً , فلا أنافق ولا أراهن , ولا أكره أحدا”
― جبران خليل جبران

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#23

“الإعتذار لا يعني أنك على خطأ فقط، بل يعني أنك تقدّر العلاقة مع الآخرين وتمنحها أهمية كبيرة٠”
― جبران خليل جبران

tags: جبران

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#24

“ أنت تحيين فيَّ وأنا أحيا فيكِ , أنتِ تعلمين ذلك وأنا أعلم ذلك".”
― جبران خليل جبران

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#25

“الرغبة نصف الحياة ، أما عدم الإكتراث فنصف الموت”
― جبران خليل جبران

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#26

“فاسمعي يا صغيرتي الحلوة، إذا تخاصمنا في المستقبل (هذا إذا كان لا بد من الخصام) يجب أن لا نفترق مثلما كنّا نفعل في الماضي بعد كل معركة. يجب أن نبقى، برغم الخصام، تحت سقف بيت واحد حتى نملّ الخصام فنضحك، أو يملّنا الخصام فيذهب هازًا رأسه.”
― جبران خليل جبران

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#27

“ما أعذب صغيرتي المحبوبة تذكرني في صلاتها كل يوم . ما أعذبها وما أكبر قلبها وما أجمل روحها.
ولكن ما أغرب سكوت صغيرتي المحبوبة , ما أغرب سكوتها .ذلك السكوت الطويل كالابدية,العميق كاحلام الالهة ,ذلك السكوت الذي لا يترجم الى اية لغة بشرية”
― جبران خليل جبران

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#28

“عبرت له "مي" عن خوفها من الحب. ورد عليها جبران: ".. هل تخافين ضوء الشمس؟ هل تخشين مد البحر وجزره؟♥”
― جبران خليل جبران

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#29

“ويل لأمة، عاقلها أبكم، و قويها أعمى، و محتالها ثرثار”
― جبران خليل جبران

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#30

“بعضنا كالحبر وبعضنا مالورق. فلولا سواد بعضنا لكان البياض أصم. ولولا بياض بعضنا لكان السواد أعمى. ..”
― جبران خليل جبران

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