A List Of Famous Malcolm X Quotes And Sayings
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, or Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little (19 May 1925 – 21 February 1965) was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist.
A List Of Famous Malcolm X Quotes And Sayings:
Malcolm X Quotes
1. A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
— Malcolm X
2. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
— Malcolm X
3. You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary
4. A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
— Malcolm X
5. Dr. King wants the same thing I want. Freedom.
— Malcolm X
6. We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary
— Malcolm X
7. Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
8. If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.
— Malcolm X
9. Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.
— Malcolm X
10. An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.
— Malcolm X
11. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
― Malcolm X
12. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
— Malcolm X
13. I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.
— Malcolm X
14. There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
— Malcolm X
15. You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
― Malcolm X
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