Malcolm X

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they’ve always made me glad.

Malcolm X

Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don’t go to the heart of the problem.

Malcolm X

Betty’s a good Muslim woman and wife. I don’t imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job

Malcolm X

Books.’ 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.

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

But they don’t use law-they use law for their interests. They don’t go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.

Malcolm X

Can you accuse me, if a man is putting a rope around my neck, of being violent, when I violently struggle against this lyncher to try and keep him from putting a rope around my innocent neck? Why, you’d be insane to cause me – to call me violent.

Malcolm X

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

Malcolm X

Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you’ve been knocked down, to push forward – ever forward – to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.

Malcolm X

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

Malcolm X