Malcolm X Quotes
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.
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your — your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action.
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.
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.
Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Stumbling is not falling.
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from
Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
Anytime you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.