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Malcolm X (Born on May 19, 1925) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a strong advocate for racial equality in Omaha, Nebraska. His father, Earl Little, was a Baptist minister and Democratic Party leader who strongly opposed racism. His mother Louise Norton Little was also well educated and an active member of her church.”
His parents were both very educated and politically active. They were both very involved in the African-American community. So when Malcolm came along, he also grew up with these values. He had a lot to live up to since his parents were so involved in the civil rights movement for blacks and wanted to see change happen for them as quickly as possible.
He considers as one of the most influential spokesmen for the Nation of Islam. Check out his inspirational quotes on controlling your life according to your terms.
61 Inspiring Malcolm X Quotes
“Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.”
“In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.”
“You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.”
“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
“If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.”
“Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.”
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.”
“All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”
“Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.”
“Anytime you see someone more successful than you are,they are doing something you’re not.”
“You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.”
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
“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.”
“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.”
“You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”
“Change is only a good thing if you change in a good way.”
“We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.”
“If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ”freedom” out of your vocabulary.”
“You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.”
“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.”
“Time is more important to me than distance.”
“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
“If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.”
“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.”
“Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.”
“A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own self hood, it can never fulfill itself.”
“You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.”
“So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves,“
“Truth is on the side of the oppressed“
“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.”
“If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.”
“They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want.”
“You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.”
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
“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.”
“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.”
“A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.”
“It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come.”
“Stumbling is not falling.”
“History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.”
“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.”
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.”
“Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
“The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba — yes Cuba too.”
“Truth does not change, only our awareness of it.”
“The truth can be quickly received, or received at all, only by the sinner who knows and admits that he is guilty of having sinned much.”
“Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power“
“You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.”
“You don’t stick a knife in a man’s back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you’re making progress …”
“No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
