Malcolm X Quotes

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Call someone your lord and he'll sell you in the slave market.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking I could really use a new slave.

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.

The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

When a wrong thought is told a thousand times and impressed on one’s brain, one starts feeling the falsehood as truth. Similarly if the mind of slave is hammered of slavery, he starts enjoying his slavery

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

They would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

The masters wanted to keep their slaves, and the slaves, their masters.