Quotes by Malcolm X

About Malcolm X:

Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

Malcolm X

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

Malcolm X

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who is for or against it.

Malcolm X

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive...

Malcolm X

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be ment...

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

Malcolm X

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Malcolm X

You can't have capitalism without racism.

Malcolm X

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,...

Malcolm X

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.

Malcolm X

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around Amer...

Malcolm X

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system...

Malcolm X

I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourselves.

Malcolm X

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

Malcolm X

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.

Malcolm X

Author Bio

  • NameMalcolm X
  • DescriptionAmerican human rights activist
  • AliasesMalcolm Little; El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
  • BornMay 19, 1925
  • DiedFebruary 21, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Autobiographer