Malcolm X Quotes

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

I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

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

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

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being

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

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

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.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

You can't have capitalism without racism.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

The price of freedom is death.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

Stumbling is not falling.

How can anyone be against love?

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.

A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.

Stumbling isn't falling.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.

A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.

If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.

If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.

I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.

I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.

Respect me, or put me to death.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

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.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.