Malcolm X Quotes

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car ... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I say, let it be done. [He was executed.]

We have to be willing to give our lives to put an end to segregation. If we do, then segregation will end even if we die.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my father being a veteran of World War II, not being able to use - having to sit behind Nazi on American military bases, I lost my fear of jails and death.

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.

Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolized when dead, but crucified when living.

The people's flag is deepest red; It shrouded oft our martyred dead .... Then raise the scarlet standard high. Within its shade we'll live or die. Tho' cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here.

I can give you nothing but my life. I wish that my last breath might be of use to my fellow citizens and that my head'[after she was guillotined], carried through Paris, might be a signal to rally all the friends of justice …. I have shown you the way. You know your enemies. Arise, march, and strike!

Martyrdom does not end something. It is only the beginning.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.

No matter how mendacious elites may be, they cannot extinguish the forces for good in the world.

Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.

You can try and kill my body but you cannot kill my cause.

If you are going to organize and ask for commitment, you cannot go to the most desperately poor. They are not likely to take action. If you stand on a man's head and push it into the dirt, he may not even see the heel of your boot. But if his whole face is already above ground, he can see your heel and he can see freedom ahead.

It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors.