Some things are better done than said.
MALCOLM XSome things are better done than said.
MALCOLM XA race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
MALCOLM XYou can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
MALCOLM XYou show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
MALCOLM XEverybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
MALCOLM XYou and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
MALCOLM XUsually 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.
MALCOLM XHow can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
MALCOLM XWhen ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
MALCOLM XRevolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
MALCOLM XYou get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
MALCOLM XOnly a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
MALCOLM XAnytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
MALCOLM XThe only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
MALCOLM XI’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
MALCOLM XEducation is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
MALCOLM X