Quotes from Malcolm X

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

I don't have any hate. I've got some sense. I'm not going to let anybody who hates me tell me to love him. I'm not that way-out.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.

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.

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

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.

White America is in the minority.

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

Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.

I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

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.

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots