Quotes from Malcolm X
The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
- Malcolm X
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
- Malcolm X
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?
- Malcolm X
The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.
- Malcolm X
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
- Malcolm X
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
- Malcolm X
[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready.
- Malcolm X
The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
- Malcolm X
We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.
- Malcolm X
This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.
- Malcolm X
Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.
- Malcolm X
I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
- Malcolm X