Malcolm X quotes

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

If 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.