Wednesday, February 25, 2009

QUOTE: Open-minded search for truth

“On this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to re-arrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.”
- El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X), from his 1964 "Letter from Mecca"

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