Malcolm X Qoutes

malcolm x - quotations

The quotations are divided into little subcategories. Unless stated

otherwise, they are all by Malcolm X.

By Any Means Necessary...

"We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be

respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in

this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into

existence by any means necessary."

"Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means

necessary."

"The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes

that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized,

to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to

that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself."

Education, Students, the Youth...

"Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world."

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the

people who prepare for it today."

"Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I

feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel

to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a

wall while the whole world was fighting for its hum an rights - and

you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same

fight.' What did we do, who preceded you ? I'll tell you what we did.

Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made...."

"If you've studied the captives being caught by the American soldiers in

South Vietnam, you'll find that these guerrillas are young people. Some

of them are just children and some haven't reached their teens. Most are

teenagers. It is the teenagers abroad, all over the world, who are

actually involving themselves in the struggle to eliminate oppression

and exploitation. In the Congo, the refugees point out that many of the

Congolese revolutionaries, they shoot all the way down to seven years

old - that's been reported in the press. Because the revolutionaries are

children, young people. In these countries, the young people are the

ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to

eliminate the evil conditions that exist. And here in this country, it

has been my own observation that when you get into a conversation on

racism and discrimination and segregation, you will find young people

more incensed over it - they feel more filled with an urge to eliminate

it."

On Martin Luther King, Jr...

"He got the peace prize, we got the problem.... If I'm following a

general, and he's leading me into a battle, and the enemy tends to give

him rewards, or awards, I get suspicious of him. Especially if he gets a

peace award before the war is over."

"I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United

States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the

Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin

Luther King."

"Dr. King wants the same thing I want -- freedom!"

"I want Dr. King to know that I didn't come to Selma to make his job

difficult. I really did come thinking I could make it easier. If the

white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more

willing to hear Dr. King."

Dr. King on Malcolm X:

"You know, right before he was killed he came down to Selma and said

some pretty passionate things against me, and that surprised me because

after all it was my territory there. But afterwards he took my wife

aside, and said he thought he could help me more by attacking me than

praising me. He thought it would make it easier for me in the long run."

"The goal has always been the same, with the approaches to it as