The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
MALCOLM XThe only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
MALCOLM XThe only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
MALCOLM XIf you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
MALCOLM XLearn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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 XChildren have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
MALCOLM XIt’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
MALCOLM XSo early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
MALCOLM XIgnorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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 XThe greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.
MALCOLM XWe’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
MALCOLM XYou can’t have capitalism without racism.
MALCOLM XAs long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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 XYou show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
MALCOLM X