Malcolm X Quotes

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

Jesus-murdered. Martin Luther King-murdered. Gandhi-murdered. Malcolm X-murdered. Reagan-wounded.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

I wouldn't take up arms. I think that might be a little extreme.

Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

I don't like to fight.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I am a pacifist.

I don't support violence, period.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

I do not like violence.

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

I'm a pacifist.

I don't like violence.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.