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Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.
By Any Means Necessary (1970)
The political philosophy of black nationalism means: we must control the politics and the politicians of our community.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
Power never takes a back step — only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, graduate with crippled minds.
Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (1964)
We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.
By Any Means Necessary (1970)
All ate as one, and slept as one. Everything about the pilgrimage atmosphere accented the Oneness of Man under One God.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (1964)
The media is 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.
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.
Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (1964)
A segregated school means a school that is controlled by people who have no real interest in it whatsoever.
Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (1964)
It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you're on your own.
Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (1964)
Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
The only true world solution today is governments guided by true religion — of the spirit.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
I for one will join with anyone—I don't care what color you are—as long as you want to change the miserable condition that exists on this earth.
By Any Means Necessary (1970)
The pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the Hajj, is a religious obligation that every orthodox Muslim fulfills, if able, at least once in his or her lifetime.
Text of a letter written following his Hajj (1964)
I've had enough of someone else's propaganda. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position.
Speech in Detroit, Michigan (1964)