Growing is the result of learning. Malcolm X More Quotes by Malcolm X More Quotes From Malcolm X Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life. Malcolm X monthsbookthinking Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't. Malcolm X successfulsuccesstime Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself. Malcolm X attitudemenideas A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds. Malcolm X teachingeducationchildren If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death. Malcolm X blackarmyliberty No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration! Malcolm X white-manblackmen You can't legislate good will - that comes through education. Malcolm X good-will It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the power of the dollar. Malcolm X seductivedollarscountry My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds. Malcolm X colorracismbelieve The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system! Malcolm X diversityaskingjustice We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society. Malcolm X diversityfightingjustice I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you. Malcolm X hardestacceptinghumans The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more. Malcolm X menphilosophymean ...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man. Malcolm X white-manmenpeople To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle. Malcolm X henstoo-muchgun There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity. Malcolm X unityblackwhite First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind. Malcolm X goalmeanbelieve Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job Malcolm X white-manjobsmen I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God. Malcolm X religion-of-islamteachbelieve It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you to back you up - planes over your head and all that kind of stuff. But a guerrilla is on his own. All you have is a rifle, some sneakers and a bowl of rice, and that’s all you need - and a lot of heart. Malcolm X sneakerswarriorheart
