Malcolm X

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

Malcolm X

Truth does not change, only our awareness of it.

Malcolm X

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

Malcolm X

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Malcolm X

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

Malcolm X

You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it’s hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.

Malcolm X

You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.

Malcolm X

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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.

Malcolm X