Malcolm X Quotes

Malcolm X (36)

Birth:	19th May, 1925
Death:	21st February, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Politician

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• So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise

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  Topics in Inspirational

• The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.

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  Topics in Mistake

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

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  Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man you take it.

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  Tags in Good, Freedom

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

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  Topics in Education, Future

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

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  Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power.

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• If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in African American, Violence, American

• I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

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  Topics in Respect

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• 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.

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• I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man’s problem just to avoid violence.

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  Tags in American, Good, Problem

• Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

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  Topics in Respect

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• If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.

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  Topics in Success

• If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.

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• I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.

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  Tags in Good, Matter

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

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.

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  Tags in Freedom

• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

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  Tags in Good

• The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Good