Malcolm X Quotes

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

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

"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word ''freedom'' out of your vocabulary."

"Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power"

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

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

"You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."

"If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country."

"Truth is on the side of the oppressed"

"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."

"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 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."