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

Malcolm X

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

Malcolm X

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

Malcolm X

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

Malcolm X

History proves that the white man is a devil.

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Education quotes by Malcolm X, Future quotes by Malcolm X, UberQuotes

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

Malcolm X

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X
Freedom quotes by Malcolm X, Equality quotes by Malcolm X, UberQuotes

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

Malcolm X

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.

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Future quotes by Malcolm X, UberQuotes

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Malcolm X

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

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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.

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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