98 quotes
You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal.
It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. You can't have capitalism without racism.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
Usually the black racist has been produced by the white racist.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
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.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed of humanity.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
If this is a country of freedom, let it be a country of freedom; and if it's not a country of freedom, change it.
Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.
Speech in Detroit, Michigan (1964)
Today it’s time to stop singing and start swinging. You can’t sing up on freedom, but you can swing up on some freedom.
Speech in Detroit, Michigan (1964)
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.