Malcolm X Quotes: 22

• In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

• If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

• You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

  By Any Means Necessary

• Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

• My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

• I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

• Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

• People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

• You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

• So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

  The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

• Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

• The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

  The Autobiography of Malcolm X

• The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

• Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

• لقد غيرت القراءة مجرى حياتي تغييراً جذرياً ولم أكن أهدف من ورائها الى كسب أية شهادات لتحسين مركزي وانما كنت اريد ان احيا فكريا.

• The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

  Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

• اذا كان الانسان مع الله كان الله معه وأرسل له عند الحاجة علامات تدل على ذلك.

• Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

  The Autobiography of Malcolm X

• انني احترم حق كل انسان في ان يؤمن بما يعتقد انه الصواب، وانتظر أن أعامل بالمثل.

• إن عبادة الإله الواحد وحدها ستقرب الانسان من السلام الذي يتكلم عليه الجميع ولايفعل أحد شيئاً لتحقيقه.

• I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.

  The Autobiography of Malcolm X

• An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.