Malcolm X Quotes

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

There's a battle outside raging It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls for the times they are a-changing.

Revolutions rarely end up as positively as they begin.

The so called “Arab Spring” … is really a situation which is creating more threats so far than positive incentives.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Nothing changes without blood flowing.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Change will always be violent.

Revolutions breeds its own excesses.

The pogroms are oil for the wheels of revolution.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.