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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 4

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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

Grief, Light, Joy

I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Mother, Brother, Nice

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.17, Ballantine Books

You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.

Dream, Ifs

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.

Mistake, Sleep, People

Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution.

Giving Up, Gun, America

Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.

Dream, Successful, Giving

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.

Heartbreak, Time, Adversity

The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.

Men, White Man, Use

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

Gratitude, Men, Giving

"The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

Men, Thinking, Changed

Some things are better done than said.

Done, Said

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

Government, People, Connections

The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless - that's what you mean by nonviolent - be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity - that's this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs.

Country, Dog, Kings

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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. If you pour too much cream in, 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’ll put you to sleep.

Strong, Coffee, Sleep

Malcolm X's Speech at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference in Detroit, Michigan, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.

Believe, White, Humanity

Malcolm X, Bruce Perry (1989). “Malcolm X: the last speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

Growing is the result of learning.

Justice, Diversity, Growing

You can't have capitalism without racism.

Racism, Capitalism

"Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman (May 29, 1964), 1965.

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.

Struggle, Past, Culture

Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. Understand that. Whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. And anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is breaking the law, is a criminal.

Law, Rights, Effort

"The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog or a hound dog or any kind of dog. If a dog is fixed on a black man when that black man is doing nothing but trying to take advantage of what the government says is supposed to be his, then that black man should kill that dog or any two-legged dog who sets the dog on him.

Dog, Men, Two

"Malcolm X: Make It Plain". "The American Experience", PBS, season 6, episode 6, January 26, 1994.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

Truth, Racism, Hajj

"Malcolm X Speaks". Book by George Breitman, 1965.

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

Race, Problem, Emancipation Proclamation

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.

Mean, Sacrifice, Sacrificing Everything

Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and well-educated. He's often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro -by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.

Uncles, Mean, Men

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight.

Powerful, Research, World

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