Quotes from Malcolm X

History is not hatred.

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

I don't feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.

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

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

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

A man who tosses worms in the river isn't 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm's got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

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.

No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.

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

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

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.