Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

People involved in a revolution don’t become part of the system; they destroy the system… The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them…

Malcolm X

Power doesn’t back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It’s not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.

Malcolm X

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated.

Malcolm X

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

Malcolm X

Renaissance or the reawakening of Europe. And, and this reawakening actually involved an era during which the people of Europe, who were coming out of the Dark Ages, were then adopting the value system of the people in the East, in the, of the oriental society.

Malcolm X

Respect me, or put me to death.

Malcolm X