Top 96 Quotes by Malcolm X

About Malcolm X

These are some quotes by American author Malcolm X Activist, who lived between May 19, 1925 and February 21, 1965.

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

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

Malcolm X

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.

Malcolm X

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

Malcolm X

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

Malcolm X

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.

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.

Malcolm X

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun.

Malcolm X

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

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

Malcolm X

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve.

Malcolm X

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

Malcolm X

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