32 Malcolm X Quotes on Equality and Freedom

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.\

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Don’t be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn’t do what you do. or think as you think. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.