Malcolm X

Revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

Malcolm X

So early in life, I learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Malcolm X

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down.

Malcolm X

Ten guards and the warden couldn’t have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned… I had never been so truly free in my life.

Malcolm X

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

Malcolm X

The 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.

Malcolm X

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.

Malcolm X

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Malcolm X

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That’s a good religion.

Malcolm X

They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

Malcolm X