Quotes by Malcolm X
Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.
If not now then when, if not me then who?
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.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?
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 don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.