Malcolm X Quotes

The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

Complete right of self-determination must include the right to governmental separation.... The Communist Party must stand ... for the establishment of a Negro republic in the Black Belt.

Our [black people's] path is clear: We refuse to be inferior. We want to be exactly what Allah (God) has desired for us to be and we can't be that in their [white people's] house. We either have to take over their house or go and build a house of our own.

If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own problems, there won't be any explosion, and the Negroes who want to stay with the white man, let them stay with the white man - but those who want to leave, let them go to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of democracy are secure, then true equality can be achieved.

I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Freedom is a universal value.

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

No man is good enough to be another's master.

Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others.

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.

Success will crown our efforts, because the destiny of America has been irrevocably decided; the tie that bound her to Spain has been severed.