More Quotes by Malcolm X
Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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.
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
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.
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
