Malcolm X Quotes

Owning media is power. That’s the way it is.

Many people here are completely unsuitable for shaping public opinion. I am going to weed them out.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

The media is so powerful.

The right can distort anything it wants.

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them

Give people control of the media and they will use it. Don’t give them control and you will lose it.

The primary purpose of the media is to mobilize support for the controlling interests.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

Media is a double-edged sword and has the power to change hearts and minds through authentic storytelling as well as the power to paint a person, or an entire community, in a dim and misleading light.

The media is controlled.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

I like power and I like to use it.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.