Malcolm X Quotes

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'

An oppressed people will always rise.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

We will take up the ball of the Revolution where our fathers stopped it and roll it to the final consummation of freedom and independence for the masses.

The removal of a tyrant is not merely justifiable; it is the highest duty of every true revolutionist.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

Power Concedes Nothing

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.