American - Activist | May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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History proves that the white man is a devil.
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Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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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.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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