15 Malcolm X quotes to get to know this revolutionary leader better

This government failed the Negro. This so-called democracy has failed the Negro.

If you can get through the snow, the storm and the rain, you know you can get there when the sun shines and all will be well.

Education is our passport to the future, because tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare themselves today.

We do not fight for integration or separation. We fight to be recognized as human beings.

We cannot think of uniting with others until we are first united with each other. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proved acceptable to ourselves.

The only people who really changed history were those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.

If you’re not careful, the newspapers will make you hate the people who are being oppressed, and love the people who are oppressing.

Every time you need to trust your enemy to get a job, you are in trouble.

The most dangerous creation in the world, in any society, is a man with nothing to lose.

In this country, black people are treated as animals and animals do not have a surname.

There is nothing better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartache, every loss contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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

Early on in life I learned that if you want to achieve something you better make some noise.

You cannot separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless they have their freedom.