Quotes by Malcolm X

“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid ...”

“But lets not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti-Semite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the...”

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

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

“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.”

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

“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.”

“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”

“The 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.”

“Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, whi...”

“Ive had enough of someone elses propaganda Im for truth, no matter who tells it. Im for justice, no matter who it is for or against. Im a human being first and foremost, and as such Im for whoever ...”

“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. You don't need anything else.”

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

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

“I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality f...”

“... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.”

“You are either free or not free”

“It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be forthright; it has separated believers on the basis of color, although it has declared its mission to...”

“All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.”

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