Malcom X

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

…indictments of any one race. I am now striving to live the life of a true Muslim."

…which I was blessed to receive as a result of my recent pilgrimage to the Holy city of Mecca, I no longer subscribe to sweeping…

…these generalizations have caused injuries to some whites who perhaps did not deserve to be hurt. Because of the spiritual enlightenment…

"I am not a racist. In the past I permitted myself to be used...to make sweeping indictments of all white people, the entire white race and…

"I am not a racist. In the past I permitted myself to be used...to make sweeping indictments of all white people, the entire white race and…

…authority."

"I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that…

…Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King."

"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…

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

…country."

"It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this…

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

…mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load."

"We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic…

Respect me, or put me to death.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

…first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves."