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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 2

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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.

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.

Knowledge, Equality, Thinking

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

Hands, Ideas, Knows

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

Roots, People, Tree

Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

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

Truth, Justice, Criminal Mind

"The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book byMalcolm X (p. 400), 1965.

That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck.

Feet, America, World

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

Self, Defense, Violence

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

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

Hate, Men, Lynching

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin.

Believe, Thinking, Color

The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.

America, Black, Neglected

Malcolm X's speech in Los Angeles, amara.org. May 5, 1962.

You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built And the only way is going to be built is with extreme methods And I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are As long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth

Color, Long, People

The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Powerful, Hate, Media Control

Malcolm X's speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem (December 13, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (p. 93), 1965.

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

Light, Understanding, One Day

Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Children, Struggle, Mean

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

The only thing power respects, is power.

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

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy, Democracy

"The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself. The black brother is so brainwashed that he may reject the truth when he first hears it. You have to drop a little bit on him at a time, and wait a while to let that sink in before advancing to the next step

Brother, Men, Waiting

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

Helping Others, Revolution, Helping

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Thinking, White, Black

"A Declaration of Independence" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 12, 1964.

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

Thinking, Self Worth, Firsts

"A Declaration of Independence". Malcolm X's Statement at the Park Sheraton Hotel, New York City, New York, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 12, 1964.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Mother, Teacher, Children

When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.

Believe, Mean, Justice

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Motivational, Freedom, Patriotic

"Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, p. 111, 1965.

You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

Love You, Enemy, Revolution

"The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a black man strikes back he's an extremist, he's supposed to sit passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, verbal or otherwise, he's supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself, then he's an extremist.

Men, White Man, Long

"The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2011.

One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values.

Spiritual, Respect, Ghetto

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