Malcolm X Quotes

Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

Strong communities shape their own futures.

The center of gravity has shifted from the courts to community action.

Human trafficking is a communitywide problem, and as such, it requires communitywide solutions.

I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.

Fundamentally, we need to make sure that our neighborhoods are safe - all of our neighborhoods.

More cops on our streets and in our neighborhoods mean safer streets and neighborhoods.

Let's demonstrate, illustrate, the ways in which our communities are being undermined time and time again, and make sure that the broader public and those in power choose to stand with us.

We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.

There is a difference between a small community being herded into a park and murdered and all of these communities joining forces to make sure that something like that will not happen again.

The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat that we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige, and concentrate our united efforts toward solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America.

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe?

If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

We're so so interested in protecting criminals and people that want to do us harm and I think we have to go back to a little more old fashioned method of thinking, if that makes sense.

One of the things that's very important, when you're an activist and an organizer like me, is to understand that when things happen of that nature, some people become immobilized and other people begin to find solutions. And Detroit is the kind of city where we begin to find solutions.

I mean, I really loved the mix of personal health and, kind of, community health and justice, and I really saw how they were inseparable.

When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

The Million Man March, in one day, helped to defeat all of the evil propaganda spread about Black men throughout the world.

The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.