50 Malcolm X Quotes

If you are not prepared for the Media, they will make you love the oppressor and hate the oppressed.

The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent innocent and the guilty innocent, and that is the power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

They put your mind in a bag and take it wherever they want.

In all our actions, the correct value and respect for time determines success or failure.

One of the first things you young people must learn to do is see for yourself, listen for yourself and think for yourself.

I learned from a young age that if you want to achieve something, you better make some noise.

Every time you notice that someone is more successful than you, they are doing something that you are not.

Those who listen to nothing will fall into nothing.

In all our actions, the correct value and respect for time determines success or failure.

One of the first things you young people must learn to do is see for yourself, listen for yourself and think for yourself.

If you don’t get any criticism, you probably won’t have any success.

Don’t be in a hurry to condemn someone because they don’t do what you do, or think like you, or be the same as you, there was a time when you didn’t know what you know now either.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

I am for the truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is or against.

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

People don’t realize how a book can change a man’s life.

Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.

Having once been a criminal is not a disgrace. To remain a criminal is disgrace.

You cannot legislate good will, that comes through education.

If you can make it through the snow, the storm, and the rain, you know you can make it through when the sun is shining and everything will be okay.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he is, even if he is wrong, than the other who comes like an angel but turns out to be a demon.

A race of people is like an individual man; Until you use your own talent, take pride in your own history, express your own culture, assert your own identity, you will never be able to fulfill yourself.

You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is be an intelligent human being.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Peace cannot be separated from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

It is time for martyrs now, and if I am going to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That is the only thing that can save this country.

I am neither a fanatic nor a dreamer. I am a black man who loves peace and justice, and loves his people.

If you don’t stand up for something, you fall in love with everything.

The weakness of the one who hates is the strength of the one who knows how to love.

We need more light for each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience and patience creates unity.

For me, the only thing worse than death is betrayal. Look, I could conceive of death, but I couldn’t conceive of betrayal.

We need more light from each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience and patience unity.

We are not Americans, we are Africans who are in the United States. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, that rock fell on us.

I believe in human rights for all, and none of us are qualified to judge each other and none of us should have that authority.

Speaking this way does not mean that we are anti-white, but it does mean that we are anti-exploitation, we are anti-degradation, we are anti-oppression.

People involved in a revolution do not become part of the system; they destroy the system… The black revolution is not a revolution, because it condemns the system and then asks the system that it has condemned to accept them…

You can’t have capitalism without racism.

People involved in a revolution do not become part of the system; They destroy the system… The black revolution is not a revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.

We are not Americans, we are Africans who are in the United States. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, that rock fell on us.

We black men have it hard enough in our own fight for justice, and we already have enough enemies without making the drastic mistake of attacking us and adding more weight to an already unbearable burden.

10- Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If there are differences between us, we will keep things in the closet; When we go out into the street, let there be nothing to discuss between us until we have finished arguing with that white man.

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism and other negative isms.

As long as there is inequality, the poverty program created by the system of slavery and conditioning will continue to condemn those who do not even know the reason for this penance.

I find it hard to believe that…Christians accuse black Muslims of teaching racial supremacy or…hatred, because their own history and…teachings are full of it.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

Do you know what integration really means? It means mixed marriages. That’s the real point behind it. You can’t have it without mixed marriages. And that would result in the disintegration of both races.

When life in the ghetto seems normal, you have no shame or privacy.

The black revolution is controlled by cunning white liberals, by the government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled by God alone.

Dr. King wants the same thing I do. Freedom.

The only way to obtain freedom for us is to identify with all the oppressed people of the world. We are blood brothers for the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti and Cuba.