Malcolm X Quotes

Welcome to my Malcolm X quotes page. Malcolm X stood up against racism and fought the good fight. He didn’t necessarily always get things right. In his earlier years he got into a lot of trouble with crime and ended up in prison. However in later years he became a civil rights activist and did a lot for the black people in America. He was a symbol to millions of black people from around the world.



The man was not perfect but he definitely was a great man, full of courage and strength. These Malcolm X quotes are my dedication to a man who changed a lot of people’s lives for the better.

Human Rights Activist and Public Speaker
(May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)

• MALCOLM X QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
• I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
• You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
• Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
• The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
• 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.
• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
• If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
• I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
• Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
• 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.
• In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
• Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
• I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
• Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
• You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
• I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
• If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
• My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
• You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
• 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.
• Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
• I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
• Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Thank you for passing by my Malcolm X quotes page. I love compiling quotes of people I really admire and I greatly admire this man and a lot of what he stood for.

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