Malcolm X Quotes

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

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Good, Philosophy, Hope

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Freedom

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

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Freedom

• 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

• 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

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

  Malcolm X

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  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

• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man you take it.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Freedom

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

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Books, Reading

• 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

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

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Success

• If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Integrity, Stand

• 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

• 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

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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