Malcolm X Quotes

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.

There will be no peace in this land until slavery is ended.

Emancipation is a demand of civilization. All else is intrigue.

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

Death is a slave's freedom.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.

Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.