98 Most Notable Malcolm X Quotes That Never Lose Relevance
Malcolm X was a prominent Afro-American Muslim minister. Apart from being a renowned human rights activist, he was respected for his prolific oratory skills and as a black nationalist leader. His oratory skills helped expand the strength of the ‘Nation of Islam’. He proved to be highly influential in turning people against racism. He had gone through much oppression as a child; he lost his parents and his childhood to racism. The financial troubles at a tender age made him turn to drug dealing for easy money. During his sentence, his siblings inspired him to convert to ‘Nation of Islam’. There, he soon became a minister and established a newspaper ‘Muhammad Speaks’ to preach the message of Islam. He went on to appear as a voice of radical blacks in the ‘Civil Rights Movement’. Here is a compilation of words, thoughts and views by Malcolm X which are extensively quoted. Read through the quotations and sayings by Malcolm X who inspires thousands through his words and thoughts.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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?
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
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.
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
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.
I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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.
