Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem. - Malcolm X 1 Share Now -
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X 2 Share Now -
In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed. - Malcolm X 3 Share Now -
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. - Malcolm X 4 Share Now -
I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment. - Malcolm X 5 Share Now -
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. - Malcolm X 7 Share Now -
Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. - Malcolm X 8 Share Now -
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. - Malcolm X 9 Share Now -
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. - Malcolm X 10 Share Now -