Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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X is not my real name. But if you study history, you'll find why no Black man in the Western Hemisphere knows his real name. Some of his ancestors kidnapped our ancestors from Africa and took us into the Western Hemisphere and sold us there, and our names were stripped from us and so today we don't know who we really are. I am one of those who admit it, and so I just put X up there to keep from wearing his name.

Malcolm X's Popular Quotes

You are either free or not free

- Malcolm X

The only thing power respects, is power.

- Malcolm X

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

- Malcolm X

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not pr…

- Malcolm X

When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press t…

- Malcolm X

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

- Malcolm X

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.

- Malcolm X

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

- Malcolm X

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

- Malcolm X