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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. -- Malcolm X
Freedom Quotes
Freedom
Vocabulary
Malcolm X
Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Nonviolence
Works
Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Education
World
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Power
Never
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Vocabulary
Freedom
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Truth
Matter
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
Human
Intelligent
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Nobody
Freedom
Justice
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Supposed
Patriotism
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
God
Controlled
Government
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
Respect
Stands
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.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Produces
Oppression
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
Malcolm X
Understand
Religion
Considered
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.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Bullet
Expression
We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Hypocritical
No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Citizenship
Time
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Nothing
Peacefully
I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Believe
Brotherhood
Treatment
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Reverend
Defenseless
We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.
― Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Organize
Democrat
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