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Malcolm X Quotes | Quotes said by Malcolm X

  • 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 Quote #2

    A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm’s got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan.

  • Malcolm X Quote #3

    A man with a rifle or a club can only be stopped by a person who defends himself with a rifle or a club. That's equality. If the United States government doesn't want you and me to have rifles, then take the rifles away from those racists.
    If they don't want you and me to use clubs, take the clubs away from the racists. If they don't want you and me to get violent, then stop the racists from being violent. Don't teach us non-violence!!!

  • Malcolm X Quote #4

    All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that 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 Quote #5

    Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, in fact wants this too.

  • Malcolm X Quote #6

    America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white, but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all together, irrespective of their color.

  • Malcolm X Quote #7

    America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  • Malcolm X Quote #8

    America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work.

  • Malcolm X Quote #9

    An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

  • Malcolm X Quote #10

    And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare.

  • Malcolm X Quote #11

    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 Quote #12

    Any time you throw your weight behind a political party that controls two thirds of the government and that party can’t keep the promise that it made to you during election time and you’re dumb enough to walk around continuing to identify yourself with that party, you’re not only a chump but you’re a traitor to your race.

  • Malcolm X Quote #13

    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 Quote #14

    Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  • Malcolm X Quote #15

    Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

  • Malcolm X Quote #16

    Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job

  • Malcolm X Quote #17

    But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti-Semite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn’t 't pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti-Semite.

  • Malcolm X Quote #18

    Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

  • Malcolm X Quote #19

    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 Quote #20

    Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

  • Malcolm X Quote #21

    Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

  • Malcolm X Quote #22

    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 Quote #23

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

  • Malcolm X Quote #24

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

  • Malcolm X Quote #25

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

  • Malcolm X Quote #26

    Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. she was the one whose words hurt him.

  • Malcolm X Quote #27

    Eventually my mother suffered a complete breakdown, and the court orders were finally signed. They took her to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo. My mother remained in the same hospital at Kalamazoo for about 26 years.

    My last visit, when I knew I would never come to see her again-there-was in 1952. I was twenty-seven. My brother Philbert had told me that on his last visit, she had recognized him somewhat. In spots he said.

    But she didn't recognize me at all.
    She stared at me. She didn't know who I was.
    Her mind, when I tried to talk, to reach her, was somewhere else. I asked, Mama, do you know what day it is?
    She said, staring, All the people have gone.

    I can't describe how I felt. The woman who had brought me into the world, and nursed me, and advised me, and chastised me, and loved me, didn't know me.

    It was as if I was trying to walk up the side of a hill of feathers.

    -Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • Malcolm X Quote #28

    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 Quote #29

    He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.

  • Malcolm X Quote #30

    History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

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