Malcolm X Quotes

Malcolm X
Malcolm X
American Activist
Born: May 19, 1925
Died: Feb 21, 1965
Black Man Me People White You
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Elizabeth Cady Stanton Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
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
Innocent Power Control Minds Earth Guilty Entity Powerful Most Masses Most Powerful Make Because Media
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 the next time. Malcolm X
Time Adversity Better Own Lesson Defeat Every Seed Performance Contains How Loss Heartbreak Than Improve Next Your Next Time
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
Me Man Respect Angel Devil Nothing More He Wrong Like Know Up Than Where Who Stands Even Lets
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Malcolm X
You Respect Obey Law Everyone Someone Puts Him Courteous His Hand Send Cemetery Peaceful
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. Malcolm X
Freedom You Man Justice Equality Give Take Nobody Anything
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
You Patriotism Reality Matter Face Says Face Reality Wrong Supposed Blind Who
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
Time Me Man People Treat Men Somebody Believe Brotherhood My Time Know Return How Trying Going Anybody Want Who Waste Right Treating Treatment
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
Man Black Party Sold Out More Both Both Parties Democrat Parties Democratic Democratic Party Because Than Any Republican Republican Party Them Us Organize
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
Me Men Practice Believe Two-Way Two-Way Street Brotherhood Want Anyone Who Street Wasting
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
Life Truth Knowledge Man Experience Reality Mind Face Convictions Every Despite Must Tries Facts Open Firm Open Mind New Accept Always New Knowledge Go Been Hand Hand-In-Hand Intelligent Form Unfolds Flexibility Who Search Kept
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X
Freedom You Peace Unless No-One He Because His Separate
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
Freedom Oppression Tyranny Power Conviction Action Defense Our Uncompromising Greater Because Real Than Behalf Real Power Which Produces
The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites. Malcolm X
Racism Only Blamed Never He Reacting His Years American Racial Whites Conscious
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X
Life Good Library Rest My Life Reading Spend Books Could Curiosity Just Satisfying
America preaches integration and practices segregation. Malcolm X
Segregation Practices Integration Preaches America
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
You Yourself Hate Tree Africa Roots
Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. Malcolm X
Envy Impossible Men Think Clearly Blinds Makes Them
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
Attitude Needs Religion People Problem World Islam Met White Society Minds Considered Muslim Muslim World Would Eaten Throughout Had Talked Because Understand Been America Race Race Problem Who Even Travels
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
People Oppression Believe Else Rules Out Someone Come Oppressed Just Being Which Them Should Set
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace. Malcolm X
Criminal Once Remain Been Disgrace
I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color. Malcolm X
Believe Respected Color Human Human Beings Regardless Should Beings
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
Today People Made Master Our Our People Destroyed Brought Given Never Taken Name Names Forefathers Real Were America Whatsoever Refuse Acknowledge Which Them Then Reject Last Slave Slavery Slaves
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. Malcolm X
History Man Memory People Animals Without Lower
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. Malcolm X
Me You Capitalist Show
The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat. Malcolm X
Man Black Before Stars Universe Earth Had He Knew Mastered Course Sciences Up Arts Africa Flat Europe
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
Freedom You Man Fight Human Being Be A Man Intelligent Human Being
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