Malcolm X dedicated his life to the justice and freedom of black American people. Here I have posted an excellent collection of famous Malcolm x quotes with images.
He was such a great black leader who tried to unite all the oppressed black people, talked against racism advocated education.
Hope you will find his words or speeches of wisdom interesting and useful.
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Famous Malcolm X Quotes
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.
In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don’t even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.
Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
Malcolm x inspirational quotes
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Stumbling is not falling.
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
We declare our right on this earth…to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
Malcolm x quotes on love
How can anyone be against love?
If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you’ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.
Malcolm x quotes on life
Anytime you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren’t.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
A man without any history is like a tree without roots
The truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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 the next time.
You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
Quotes about Freedom
You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm x Oppression Quotes
How can you thank a man for giving you what’s yours?
Malcolm x education quotes
People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.
Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
Malcolm x quotes on integration
If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
If not now then when, if not me then who?
Malcolm x quotes on democracy
You and I have never seen democracy – all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We,’ even the illness becomes wellness.
If you have no critics, you’ll likely have no success.
Malcolm x quotes on racism
You can’t have capitalism without racism.
You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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.
History proves that the white man is a devil.
Malcolm x violence quotes
I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self-defense; I call it intelligence.
We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
If ballots won’t work, bullets will.
Malcolm x media quotes
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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.
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