Explore Quotes by Malcolm X

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.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

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.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.