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."

"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."

"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American."

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today"

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

"Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world."

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

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

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

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

"My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity"

"It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep."

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."

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

"So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves,"

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

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

"Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it."

"When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom."

"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, Venezuelan Haiti and Cuba."