Malcolm X Quotes

That’s not a chip on my shoulder, that’s your foot on my neck.

We won’t organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

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

When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.

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.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.

I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.