Quotes from Malcolm X

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

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 for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin...

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 and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

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