Malcolm X quotes
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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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.
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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.
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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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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.
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
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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.
