Malcolm X Quotes

I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had...

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power...

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in...

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go t...

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who is for or against it.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in pris...

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always ma...

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfyi...

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, ...

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people. Anyone who has studied the genetic p...

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when th...

A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take...

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim...

No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds o...

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black R...

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and t...

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

America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to ac...

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I ...

The world since Adam has been white—and corrupt. The world of tomorrow will be black—and righteous. ...

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do yo...

Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. she was th...

A man with a rifle or a club can only be stopped by a person who defends himself with a rifle or a c...

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

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

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the...

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the...

There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches...

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, you...

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I...

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who do...

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send...

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

The old men had a set rabbit-hunting strategy that they had always used. Usually when a dog jumps a ...

But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly label...

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and rac...

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppres...

Many people in this country who want to see us the minority, and who don’t want to see us taking too...

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no m...

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches ...

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

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

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who...

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a hu...

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who...

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant...

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific g...

You are either free or not free

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to e...

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, fromBirth must be reviewed. All ...

I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim...

Never ask a woman about other men.Either she'll tell you a lie, and you still won't know, or if she ...

It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.He's a professional gambler; he...

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; an...

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling...

Laura never again came to the drugstore as long as I continued to work there.The next time I saw her...

When the meat platter was passed to me, I didn't even know what the meat was; usually, you couldn't ...

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could ca...

The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian h...

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too muc...

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson...

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the rea...

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison,...

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think ...

I want to say before I go on that I have never previously told anyone my sordid past in detail. I ha...

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

I don't know how many marriage breakups are caused by these movie-and television-addicted women expe...

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts ar...

I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice...

Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a w...

Eventually my mother suffered a complete breakdown, and the court orders were finally signed. They t...

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try agai...

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be fort...

All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black...

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who do...

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the ...

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their ...

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant bes...

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent ...

No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition whites show towards me…as long as that sa...

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could ...

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

You can't have capitalism without racism.

Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a gener...

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this eart...

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.