How 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
-
-
The only thing power respects, is power.
MALCOLM X -
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
MALCOLM X -
I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
MALCOLM X -
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
MALCOLM X -
Who taught you to hate yourself?
MALCOLM X -
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.
MALCOLM X -
Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
MALCOLM X -
Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
MALCOLM X -
Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
MALCOLM X -
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
MALCOLM X -
You can’t have capitalism without racism.
MALCOLM X -
As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
MALCOLM X -
I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
MALCOLM X -
I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
MALCOLM X -
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
MALCOLM X -
And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
MALCOLM X -
Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
MALCOLM X -
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
MALCOLM X -
The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
MALCOLM X -
Revolutions are never peaceful.
MALCOLM X -
Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
MALCOLM X -
I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
MALCOLM X -
Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
MALCOLM X -
Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
MALCOLM X -
The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
MALCOLM X -
Respect me, or put me to death.
MALCOLM X