Malcolm X Quotes

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

I've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it!

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."

I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that.

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief.

This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.

Justice satisfies everybody.

I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll...!

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.