Malcolm X Quotes

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

My main fight is for freedom and equality.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

I believe in equal rights for all people.

We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.

I'm struck by how very few people outside a rarefied world of true believers understand what you mean when you say human rights - that includes development experts and economists who are very keen to implement the UN Millennium Development Goals. They've told me quite frankly, that they don't know exactly what a human rights approach is.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

Human rights takes history out of justice.

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.