Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem. -Malcolm X Education
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. -Malcolm X Future
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. -Malcolm X Society
I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment. -Malcolm X Time
In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed. -Malcolm X Freedom
Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. -Malcolm X Smile
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. -Malcolm X Equality
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. -Malcolm X Government
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. -Malcolm X Respect
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. -Malcolm X Education
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. -Malcolm X Time
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. -Malcolm X History
If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality. -Malcolm X Equality
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. -Malcolm X Religion
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. -Malcolm X Religion
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace. -Malcolm X Peace
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. -Malcolm X Freedom
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. -Malcolm X Peace
