Quotes by Malcolm X

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

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. – Malcolm X

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X

If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything. – Malcolm X

The most dangerous enemy is the one who has nothing to lose. – Malcolm X

Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think. – Malcolm X

If you don’t know your history, you don’t know where you’re coming from. – Malcolm X

The only way to change your situation is to take responsibility for it. – Malcolm X

Power never takes a step back, only in the face of more power. – Malcolm X

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man. – Malcolm X

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Malcolm X

The only way to achieve freedom is to become masters of our own destiny. – Malcolm X

The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent. – Malcolm X

I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self-defense; I call it intelligence. – Malcolm X

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. – Malcolm X

Quotes by Malcolm X part 2

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. – Malcolm X

I’m for the truth, no matter who tells it. – Malcolm X

You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. – Malcolm X

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it. – Malcolm X

If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. – Malcolm X

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don’t believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn’t want to practice it with me. – Malcolm X

You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. – Malcolm X

If you have no critics, you’ll likely have no success. – Malcolm X

The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. – Malcolm X

Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. – Malcolm X

I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. – Malcolm X

I am neither a fanatic nor a dreamer. I do not want the wealth of America, and I do not want the ignorance of Africa. – Malcolm X

A race of people is like an 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 X

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. – Malcolm X

It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep. – Malcolm X

I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else’s control. I feel that what I’m thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind. – Malcolm X

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. – Malcolm X

You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. – Malcolm X

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. – Malcolm X

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. – Malcolm X

I’m not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner. Unless you eat some of what’s on that plate, you’re starving. And as long as you’re starving, you got the God damn right to raid the table. – Malcolm X

When you have revolution in mind, you don’t go begging the gentle fox for a lamb chop. You take the lamb chop. – Malcolm X

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color. – Malcolm X

Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world. – Malcolm X

I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against. – Malcolm X

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. – Malcolm X

If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary. – Malcolm X

My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. – Malcolm X

You can’t legislate good will or love or brotherhood. They must be given freely. – Malcolm X