Malcolm X Quotes

• Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Education, Future

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Man

• If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in America

  Tags in African American, Violence, American

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

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Good

• 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.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Good, Freedom

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

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Good, Problem

• Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Good

• If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Success

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

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Matter

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

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom

• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

• The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

• Stumbling is not falling.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Freedom

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

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Good

• You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

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

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

• Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Good

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adversity, Good

Malcolm X (47)

Birth:	19th May, 1925
Death:	21st February, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Politician

About

Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.

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