“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.”
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 have no critics you’ll likely have no success.”
Malcolm X
“I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.”
Malcolm X
“I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.”
Malcolm X
“Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.”
Malcolm X
“Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. “
Malcolm X
“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
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. Brotherhood is a two-way street.”
Malcolm X
“You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can’t hate Africa and not hate yourself.”
Malcolm X
“My Alma mater was booked, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
Malcolm X
“I just don’t believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.”
Malcolm X
“We won’t organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.”
Malcolm X
“I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.”
Malcolm X
“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.”
Malcolm X
“To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.”
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
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
Malcolm X
