200+ Malcolm X Quotes – Quotes By Malcolm X

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Are you looking for strong words? These Malcolm X quotes highlight his unwavering commitment to freedom and equality throughout his life and career.

200+ Malcolm X Quotes - Quotes By Malcolm X , Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Malcolm X

Malcolm X was a well-known African-American Muslim preacher. He was known for his prolific oratory talents and as a black nationalist leader, in addition to being a well-known human rights crusader.

His oratory skills aided the ‘Nation of Islam’ in growing in strength. He had a significant impact on people’s attitudes toward racism.

He had been subjected to a great deal of tyranny as a child, losing both his parents and his boyhood to prejudice.

Due to financial difficulties while he was young, he turned to drug peddling for quick cash. His siblings encouraged him to join the ‘Nation of Islam’ throughout his imprisonment.

He became a pastor there soon after and founded the publication ‘Muhammad Speaks’ to teach the Islamic religion.

He later became known as a militant black voice in the ‘Civil Rights Movement.’

Here is a collection of Malcolm X’s most widely quoted words, thoughts, and opinions. Read through Malcolm X’s quotes and sayings, which have inspired people with his words and thoughts.

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Top 200+ Malcolm X Quotes You Shouldn’t Miss

Top 200+ Malcolm X Quotes You Shouldn't Miss

  1. Wrong is wrong, regardless of who is doing or saying it. Malcolm X
  2. My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X
  3. I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. Malcolm X
  4. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
  5. Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down. Malcolm X
  6. People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book. Malcolm X
  7. To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal. Malcolm X
  8. If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. Malcolm X
  9. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Malcolm X

10. Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. Malcolm X

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Malcolm X Famous Quotes

  1. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. Malcolm X
  2. You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker Malcolm X
  3. The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. Malcolm X
  4. If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X
  5. So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise. Malcolm X
  6. If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success. Malcolm X
  7. Truth is on the side of the oppressed. Malcolm X
  8. If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary. Malcolm X
  9. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Malcolm X
  10. Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. Malcolm X

Quotes From Malcolm X

Quotes From Malcolm X, I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. Malcolm X

  1. A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man. Malcolm X
  2. The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. Malcolm X
  3. How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours? Malcolm X
  4. To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace Malcolm X
  5. 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. Malcolm X
  6. The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba — yes Cuba too. Malcolm X
  7. 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. Malcolm X
  8. I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream–I see an American nightmare. Malcolm X
  9. I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence. Malcolm X

Malcolm X Media Quote

  1. 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. Malcolm X
  2. You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. Malcolm X
  3. The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
  4. You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. Malcolm X
  5. As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything. Malcolm X
  6. In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that. Malcolm X
  7. You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it. Malcolm X
  8. And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education. Malcolm X
  9. Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. Malcolm X

Malcolm X Quote White Liberal

o have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace Malcolm X

  1. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it. Malcolm X
  2. Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t. Malcolm X
  3. True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete. Malcolm X
  4. It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. Malcolm X

43. By any means necessary. Malcolm X

  1. 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 next time. Malcolm X
  2. One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding. Malcolm X
  3. If you dont stand for something you fall for everything. Malcolm X

Malcolm X Education Quote

  1. I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his… Malcolm X
  2. They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. Malcolm X
  3. Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from… Malcolm X
  4. We all like chicken. Malcolm X
  5. Don’t be bitter. Remember Lot’s wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]. Malcolm X
  6. Only the mistakes were mine. Malcolm X
  7. I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that. Malcolm X
  8. Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American. Malcolm X
  9. Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms. Malcolm X

Malcolm X Quotes Chickens Coming Home To Roost

 Chickens Coming Home To Roost

  1. We didn’t land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us”. Malcolm X
  2. You can’t have capitalism without racism. Malcolm X
  3. 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. Malcolm X
  4. I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you. Malcolm X
  5. Who taught you to hate yourself? Malcolm X
  6. To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive… Malcolm X

  7. To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle. Malcolm X

  8. You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it’s hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes. Malcolm X
  9. You are either free or not free. Malcolm X
  10. An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books. Malcolm X

By Any Means Necessary Malcolm X Quote

  1. … the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist. Malcolm X
  2. I’m a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything. Malcolm X
  3. I Used the Word ‘Negro’ and I was Firmly Corrected. Malcolm X
  4. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color. Malcolm X
  5. Let’s cool it, brothers. Malcolm X
  6. History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals. Malcolm X
  7. I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil. Malcolm X

Malcolm X Quotes On Freedom

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come Malcolm X

  1. Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday’s and today’s school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did. Malcolm X
  2. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare. Malcolm X
  3. Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else. Malcolm X
  4. It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come Malcolm X
  5. We’re not Americans, we’re Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock – that rock landed on us. Malcolm X
  6. My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts. Malcolm X
  7. How is it possible to write one’s autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this? Malcolm X
  8. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.-because you can hardly mention anything I am not curious about. Malcolm X
  9. A man curses because he doesn’t have the words to say what’s on his mind. Malcolm X
  10. Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease Malcolm X
  11. A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. Malcolm X

Malcolm X Quote About Media

  1. I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against. Malcolm X
  2. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
  3. Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourselves. Malcolm X
  4. People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book. Malcolm X
  5. These negroes aren’t asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation. Malcolm X
  6. Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression. Malcolm X
  7. My feeling about in-laws was that they were outlaws. Malcolm X
  8. I could spend the rest of my life READING, Just satisfying my CURIOSITY – because you can hardly mention anything I’m not curious about. Malcolm X
  9. Do Your Best Work Malcolm X
  10. I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who is for or against it. Malcolm X
  11. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals- for the good of both. Malcolm X

Malcolm X Quote Black Women

 It seems that some women love to be exploited. when they are not exploited, they exploit the man.

  1. I actually believed that after living as fully as humanly possible, one should then die violently. I expected then as I still expect today Malcolm X
  2. It seems that some women love to be exploited. when they are not exploited, they exploit the man. Malcolm X
  3. BOOKS… “The Loom of Language. Malcolm X
  4. Time is more important to me then distance Malcolm X
  5. A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it. Malcolm X
  6. What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him? Malcolm X
  7. Yes, I’m an extremist. The black race… is in extremely bad condition. You show me a black man who isn’t an extremist and I’ll show you one who needs psychiatric attention! Malcolm X
  8. Malcolm X quote “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 next time”
  9. “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 next time.” – Malcolm X
  10. I find it difficult [to believe] that… Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or… hatred, because their own history and… teachings are filled with it. Malcolm X

Malcolm X White Liberal Quote

  1. Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American. Malcolm X
  2. The holiest and most sacred city on earth. The fountain of truth, love, peace, and brotherhood. Malcolm X
  3. I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination.
  4. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color. Malcolm X
  5. Malcolm X quote “How can anyone be against love?”
  6. “How can anyone be against love?” – Malcolm X
  7. The white man is afraid of truth… I’m the only black man they’ve ever been close to who they know speaks the truth to them. It’s their guilt that upsets them, not me. Malcolm X
  8. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Malcolm X
  9. We’re not Americans, we’re Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock – that rock landed on us. Malcolm X
  10. Malcolm X quote “Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change” Malcolm X
  11. “Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” – Malcolm X

Malcolm X Direct Quotes

Malcolm X Direct Quotes

  1. It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That’s the only thing that can save this country. Malcolm X
  2. You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X
  3. People involved in a revolution don’t become part of the system; they destroy the system… The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them… Malcolm X
  4. One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African.
  5. This was the secret to the growth of the Black Muslim movement.
  6. African blood, African origin, African culture, African ties. And you’d be surprised – we discovered that deep within the subconscious of the black man in this country , he is still more African than he is American. Malcolm X
  7. The price of freedom is death. Malcolm X
  8. Malcolm X quote “History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”
  9. “History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.” – Malcolm X
  10. Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power. Malcolm X
  11. Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else. Malcolm X

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Inspirational Malcolm X Quotes

  1. We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load. Malcolm X
  2. Speaking like this doesn’t mean that we’re anti-white, but it does mean we’re anti-exploitation, we’re anti-degradation, we’re anti-oppression. Malcolm X
  3. Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that’s racist. Malcolm X
  4. Malcolm X quote “Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise”
  5. “Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.” – Malcolm X
  6. We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach.
  7. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct – unity of purpose. Malcolm X
  8. I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence. Malcolm X

Malcolm X Quotes By Any Means Necessary

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works

  1. If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country. Malcolm X
  2. Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. Malcolm X
  3. Malcolm X quote “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything”
  4. “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” – Malcolm X
  5. I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man’s problem just to avoid violence. Malcolm X
  6. There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
  7. We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves.
  8. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. Malcolm X

Malcolm X Quotes About Liberals

  1. My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X
  2. “You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it” Malcolm X
  3. “You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.” – Malcolm X
  4. I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing.
  5. 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 systems of exploitation. Malcolm X
  6. We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary. Malcolm X

Malcolm X Famous Quotes

  1. I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority. Malcolm X
  2. The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuelan Haiti and Cuba. Malcolm X
  3. Malcolm X quote “Stumbling is not falling”
  4. “Stumbling is not falling.” – Malcolm X
  5. I am neither a fanatic nor a dreamer. I am a black man who loves peace, and justice, and loves his people. Malcolm X
  6. Dr. King wants the same thing I want. Freedom. Malcolm X
  7. In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. Malcolm X
  8. The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. Malcolm X
  9. Malcolm X quote “History is not hatred”
  10. “History is not hatred.” – Malcolm X

Malcolm X Violence Quotes

  1. I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. Malcolm X
  2. A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself. Malcolm X
  3. The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. Malcolm X
  4. People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book. Malcolm X
  5. Malcolm X quote “Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly”
  6. “Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.” – Malcolm X

Racist Malcolm X Quotes

Racist Malcolm X Quotes

  1. I want Dr. King to know that I didn’t come to Selma to make his job difficult. I really did come thinking I could make it easier. If the white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr. King. Malcolm X
  2. Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny, because the power of a just cause is based on conviction, and leads to resolute and uncompromising action. Malcolm X
  3. Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. Malcolm X
  4. I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don’t believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn’t want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street. Malcolm X
  5. Malcolm X quote “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against”
  6. “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.” – Malcolm X
  7. It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you to back you up—planes over your head and all that kind of stuff. But a guerrilla is on his own. All you have is a rifle, some sneakers and a bowl of rice, and that’s all you need — and a lot of heart. Malcolm X

Malcolm X Quote On Black Women

  1. There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That’s a good religion. Malcolm X
  2. When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won’t do to get it, or what he doesn’t believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn’t believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire or preserve his freedom. Malcolm X
  3. They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want. Malcolm X
  4. Malcolm X success quote “If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success”
  5. “If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.” – Malcolm X
  6. You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. Malcolm X

Malcolm X Quotes On Manhood

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. Malcolm X

  1. The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever. Malcolm X
  2. I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. Malcolm X
  3. Malcolm X quote “One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding”
  4. “One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.” – Malcolm X
  5. We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us. Malcolm X
  6. I don’t see an American Dream, I see an American Nightmare. Malcolm X
  7. I’m the man you think you are. If you want to know what I’ll do, figure out what you’ll do. I’ll do the same thing–only more of it. Malcolm X
  8. What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise. Malcolm X
  9. “Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.” – Malcolm X

Malcolm X Quotes On Youth

  1. The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he’s within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don’t think he’ll be by himself. Malcolm X
  2. Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they’ve always made me glad. Malcolm X
  3. I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action. Malcolm X
  4. “We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.” – Malcolm X
  5. When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy. Malcolm X
  6. If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality. Malcolm X
  7. 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. Malcolm X
  8. I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else’s control. I feel that what I’m thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. (https://bolivarescapes.com/) Now I think with my own mind, sir! Malcolm X

Malcolm X Quotes On Love

You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can’t hate Africa and not hate yourself. Malcolm X

  1. “If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.” – Malcolm X
  2. To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace. Malcolm X
  3. I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil. Malcolm X
  4. You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can’t hate Africa and not hate yourself. Malcolm X
  5. My black brothers and sisters – of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs – we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people! Malcolm X
  6. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. Malcolm X.

Malcolm X Quotes on Justice

  1. “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.” – Malcolm X
  2. I just don’t believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression. Malcolm X
  3. It’s hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Malcolm X
  4. In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don’t even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together. Malcolm X
  5. When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity. Malcolm X
  6. Malcolm X on change “Change is only a good thing if you change in a good way”
  7. “Change is only a good thing if you change in a good way.” – Malcolm X
  8. I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses. Malcolm X
  9. If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years. Malcolm X

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Malcolm X Quotes About Freedom

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

  1. You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education. Malcolm X
  2. Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem. Malcolm X
  3. Malcolm X advice “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today”
  4. “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
  5. America is the first country that can actually have a bloodless revolution. Malcolm X
  6. Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That’s the real point behind it. You can’t have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races. Malcolm X
  7. Integration will not bring a man back from the grave. Malcolm X

FAQs on Malcolm X Quotes

Below are some popular questions asked about Chronic Pain Quotes for Empathy and Motivation and answers to them.

1. What was Malcolm X’s famous statement?

“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” 


2. What was Malcolm X’s motto?

“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”


3. What was Malcolm X most famous speech?

“The Ballot or the Bullet.”


4. What did Malcolm X say about justice?

I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against.


5. What was Rosa Parks famous quote?

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”


6. What is Marcus Garvey famous quote?

“Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.”


7. What was Arthur Ashe quote?

“Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.”


8. What are the best inspirational quotes?

  1. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.”
  2. “Nothing is impossible.
  3. “There is nothing impossible to they who will try.”

9. What is a quote from Langston Hughes?

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.


10. What is Jackie Robinson’s famous quote?

Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead


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