Malcolm X Quotes

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

Let's face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they're waving is something Bad Religion has stood against.

We love to think this fundamentalism and terrorism is all about poverty, and, of course, it has a connection. You can see that these people not only are poor but they have no outlets. These governments allow no opposition. So what do people do? They go to Islam. It's the only organizational institution where they can express their feelings. But it's not about poverty. I've never seen a single demonstration in which the people have come out with signs saying, "Please give us better roads. Please give us new prenatal clinics. Please give us a new sewage system."

I am an apostle of violence

It's always been hard for me to understand how we say people who support Osama Bin Laden or someone else like him – who are willing to give their lives to destroy the dictatorship in Saudi Arabia – how we can describe those people as people who hated freedom. It seems to me that their definition of freedom might be different than ours, but to oppose a dictatorship, one must want freedom in some kind of way.

Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.

The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It's not that we are extremists. It's that the world is waking up. It's waking up all over, and people are standing up.

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.

You cannot appease fascism by meeting it in the middle; you cannot beat racism by indulging or excusing it.

As a university student and activist, I was attacked from all quarters from the far right to the far left.

Look at the world, all the suffering... Being under house arrest is the least I can sacrifice.

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

A lot of people died fighting tyranny. The least I can do is vote against it.

We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more eager to burn heretics at the stake. Even a fundamentalist Iranian Muslim would flinch if he came face to face with a western liberal's rigid dogmatism. I imagine that even a Saudi Arabian Islamic cleric would take one look at how American left wingers react when anyone deviates ever so slightly from their established orthodoxy, and say to himself, 'man, these people REALLY need to chill.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.