If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that if the - what should happen is the black man himself should learn how to develop… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If I did see a white man who was willing to go to jail or throw himself in front of a car… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If this government can send 20 billion dollars to Latin America to some peasants who have never fought for this country or… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived. — Malcolm X Copy Share
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share
Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist,… — Malcolm X Copy Share
Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind… — Malcolm X Copy Share
We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and… — Malcolm X Copy Share
I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and… — Malcolm X Copy Share
Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble. — Malcolm X Copy Share
Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables… — Malcolm X Copy Share
Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth! — Malcolm X Copy Share
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with… — Malcolm X Copy Share