Quotes about Malcolm x

Explore a curated collection of 26 quotes about Malcolm x at QuotesRead.com. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words on Malcolm x from famous authors and thinkers around the world.

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that — Malcolm X
There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that th — Cornel West, Black Prophetic Fire
Through The Mecca I saw that we were, in our own segregated body politic, cosmopolitans. The black diaspora was not just — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
When Pope Pius XII died, LIFE magazine carried a picture of him in his private study kneeling before a black Christ. Wha — Malcolm X
But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti-Semite. The — Malcolm X
The world since Adam has been white—and corrupt. The world of tomorrow will be black—and righteous. In the white world t — Malcolm X
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. — Gordon A. Eadie
Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. she was the one whose words hu — Malcolm X
Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems t — Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to res — Malcolm X
True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or — Malcolm X
There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligen — Malcolm X
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throu — Malcolm X
During his hajj, Malcolm [Malcolm X] fell into a new Islam with the same blind faith that he had given to Elijah. Since — Michael Muhammad Knight, Journey to the End of Islam
Malcolm X and Edmund Burke shared an appreciation of this important insight, this painful truth--that the state wants me — Thomas Szasz, Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts and Pushers
Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people. Anyone who has studied the genetic phase of biology know — Malcolm X
A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, w — Malcolm X
No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate — Malcolm X
I later heard somewhere, or read, that Malcolm X telephoned an apology to the reporter. But this was the kind of evidenc — Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
This is the thing you need to spread the word about among our people wherever you go. Never let them be brainwashed into — re being unlawful. The only time you're being unlawful is when you break the law. It's LAWFUL to have something to DEFEND yourself.