If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
MALCOLM XIf you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
MALCOLM XWhen ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
MALCOLM XThe 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 XRespect me, or put me to death.
MALCOLM XIn all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
MALCOLM XA wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
MALCOLM XThe only thing power respects, is power.
MALCOLM XAnytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
MALCOLM XYou can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
MALCOLM XEducation is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
MALCOLM XHuman rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
MALCOLM XThe only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
MALCOLM XCulture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
MALCOLM XYou show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
MALCOLM XNobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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 X