Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
MALCOLM XOur objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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 XI don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
MALCOLM XCulture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
MALCOLM XEducation is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
MALCOLM XStumbling is not falling.
MALCOLM XI 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 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 XA wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
MALCOLM XRespect me, or put me to death.
MALCOLM XAll over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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 XIf you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
MALCOLM XYou can’t have capitalism without racism.
MALCOLM XPeople don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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.
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