Quotes from Malcolm X

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

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

Stumbling is not falling.

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.

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

If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

I see America through the eyes of a victim. I don't see any American dream. I see an American nightmare.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

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.

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

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat 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.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

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

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.