“It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'”
"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 the next time."
- Malcolm X
Courage
"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."
- Malcolm X
Education
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."
- Malcolm X
Education
"The young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist."
- Malcolm X
Courage
"If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything."
- Malcolm X
Belief
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity