Malcolm X
“I don't mind shaking hands with human beings. Are you one?”
“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
“The only true world solution today is governments guided by true religion — of the spirit.”
“The political philosophy of black nationalism means: we must control the politics and the politicians of our community.”
“There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully.”
“Time is on the side of the oppressed today; it's against the oppressor.”
“We want freedom now, but we're not going to get it saying 'We Shall Overcome'.”
“I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner.”
“I'm no politician. I'm not even a student of politics.”
“I'm one of the 22 million black victims of Americanism.”
“You can't organize by just speaking.”
“A ballot is like a bullet.”
“We are African, and we happened to be in America. We're not American.”
“We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.”
“The newspapers make you look wrong.”
“You don't take your case to the criminal; you take your criminal to court.”
“I'm for the brotherhood of everybody, but I don't believe in forcing brotherhood upon people who don't want it.”
“I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me.”
“Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.”
“A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, graduate with crippled minds.”