Malcolm X Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Malcolm X
Malcolm X Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Malcolm X on Wise Famous Quotes.
I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.
For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.
I could spend the rest of my life
READING,
Just satisfying my
CURIOSITY
- because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.
READING,
Just satisfying my
CURIOSITY
- because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.
You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.
I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.
You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
The collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.
When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.
The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.
The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology
Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if you're not a citizen you are a slave.
Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe that everyone in here is a friend and I don't want to leave anybody out.
Under the pitiful misapprehension that it would make them "better," these Hill Negroes were breaking their backs trying to imitate white people.
No one will know who we are ... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!
All praise is due to Allah that I went to Boston when I did.
If I hadn't, I'd probably still be a brainwashed black Christian.
If I hadn't, I'd probably still be a brainwashed black Christian.
When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.
I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.
They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits!
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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, I must have a club. This is equality.
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
the truth can be quickly received, or received at all, only by the sinner who knows and admits that he is guilty of having sinned much.
It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.
I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.
We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves ... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.
Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.
Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality ...
I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.
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?
They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.