You can't legislate good will - that comes through education. Malcolm X More Quotes by Malcolm X More Quotes From Malcolm X It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies. Malcolm X regret hate people Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each other just because we believe in different methods, or tactics, or strategy. We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society. Malcolm X mistake believe fall I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being. Malcolm X humanity white believe You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes. Malcolm X colonialism dollars soul When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you...when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're green, when you die you're grey and you dare call me coloured. Malcolm X growing-up white blue I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. Malcolm X criminal-mind truth justice The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X media-control powerful hate A man without any history is like a tree without roots Malcolm X islamic wisdom men People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book. Malcolm X men book people Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure. Malcolm X fear trying children If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine Malcolm X medicine suffering people The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves. Malcolm X changed men thinking Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself. Malcolm X faces men enemy Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible. Malcolm X successful dream giving My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X education life book If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. Malcolm X hajj vocabulary freedom Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like its hate, but it's the truth Malcolm X hate sound might You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it. Malcolm X freedom enemy way So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear... Malcolm X over-you men lying I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity. Malcolm X sincerity want mistake
