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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 6

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This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.

This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.

Brother, Men, Religion

Malcolm X (1992). “February 1965: the final speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I'm also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people.

Country, Mean, People

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

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

Believe, Brutality, Crime

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.373, Ballantine Books

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

Hope, Greed, Political

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

Police Violence, Hands, Police Brutality

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

Men, White Man, White

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

Personality, Ingredients, Birth

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.159, Ballantine Books

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

Freedom, Real, Defense

They're not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they're using their positions and their education and their talent to exploit our people worse than the slave master did during slavery.

People, Independence, Slavery

My sincerity is my credentials.

Sincerity, Credentials

Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.

Wall, Hate, Singing

"Message to Grassroots" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.

Pockets, Target, Bullets

"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 Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.

Beautiful, Men, White Man

Stumbling isn't falling.

Fall, Stumbling

Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.

Success, Time, Successful

"The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Alex Haley and Malcolm X, 1965.

What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.

Democrat, Disguise

"The Ballot or the Bullet". Malcolm X's Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, teachingamericanhistory.org. April 3, 1964.

Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil.

People, Devil, Doe

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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

Government, White, Racism

Malcolm X, Benjamin Karim (1971). “The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches”, p.137, Arcade Publishing

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.

Research, Rewards, Study

When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing.

Children, School, Grandmother

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

Rights, Religion Of Islam, Feelings

Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

I think the black man in America wants to be recognized as a human being; and it's almost impossible for one who has enslaved another to bring himself to accept the person who used to pull his plow, who used to be an animal, subhuman, who used to be considered as such by him-it's almost impossible for that person in his right mind to accept that person as his equal.

Animal, Men, Thinking

How can anyone be against love?

Life, Love Life, Against Love

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

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

Life, Hard Work, Learning

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

Power, Faces, Steps

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

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