Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system! — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any time you know you're within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda. I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
This is a God-given right of any man.Anytime you have a man who is getting lynched, and what are his people supposed… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who is for or against it.” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. — 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
If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image