Malcolm X Quotes

I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

He who is penitent is almost innocent.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

I have sinned against my brother the ass.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

Hopefully America will forgive me.

I recognize that by saying that I'm deeply sorry, it might not be enough and sufficient to address the pain and the hurt that I have caused you. Therefore, I want to ask for your forgiveness for my actions, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

I will be asking for forgiveness, but hopefully I won't have to be asking for much forgiveness.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.