Top 15 Malcolm X Quotes

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

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

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

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

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

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.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Usually 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.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.