Powerful Quotes from Malcom X

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

Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.

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.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

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

I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice, and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Don’t let anybody tell you that you’re too young to change the world.

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

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

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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 next time.

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.

Powerful Quotes from Malcom X part 2

I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against.

Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner. You must be eating some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.

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.

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That’s the only thing that can save this country.

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

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

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

The oppressed will always believe the lies of the oppressor.

I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

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.

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.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man’s problem just to avoid violence.

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 the things that you grow.

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.

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

Stumbling is not falling.

I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don’t even call it violence when it’s self-defense; I call it intelligence.

I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self-defense, I call it intelligence.

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

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

I don’t trust anyone who’s nice to me but rude to the waiter. Because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position.

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

Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner. You must be eating some of what’s on that plate.

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

We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

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

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.

I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

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

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

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time. I hope you find these creative quotes inspiring!