Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
MALCOLM XRead absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
MALCOLM XEducation is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
MALCOLM XOne day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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 XOur objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
MALCOLM XYou’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 XWe cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
MALCOLM XRevolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
MALCOLM XChildren have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
MALCOLM XI think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
MALCOLM XYou can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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 XYou don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
MALCOLM XThe future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
MALCOLM XMankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
MALCOLM XReading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
MALCOLM X