Malcolm X Quotes

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

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.

Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.

The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers.

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

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

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

A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, honors its own heroes, and controls its own affairs, it’s not really free.

Malcolm X Quotes part 2

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.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

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

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

Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.

You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.

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

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.

I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else’s control. I feel that what I’m thinking and saying is now for myself. Before, it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now, I think with my own mind, sir!

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

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

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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.

My father didn’t know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather, who got it from the slave master.

Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.

You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.

It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What 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, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I’m not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn’t know how to return the treatment.

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

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

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

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

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.

A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, honors its own heroes, and controls its own affairs, it’s not really free.

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

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