I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“I want to say before I go on that I have never previously told anyone my sordid past in detail. I haven't… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“I could spend the rest of my life READING, Just satisfying my CURIOSITY - because you can hardly mention anything I'm not… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had… — 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