Malcolm X Quotes

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Betrayal does so many different things to people.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

Humans are one another’s enemies

… a knife fight

…one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.

Our ally has done us more harm than if it had been in open war with us.

Violence does not contribute to anything.

If he could hurt you, Bill Romanowski would hurt you.

I broke people's bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc... I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.

Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.