Malcolm X Quotes

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

A man is either free or he is not.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

Freedom is relative.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

The individual is greater than the state.

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.

The free man never thinks of escape.

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.

I was born, have lived, and will die free.

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

Would you rather be right or free?

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

I don't think of myself as being tied.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.