02c. 1945 ADHistory is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.Malcolm X / quote ↗
03c. 1945 ADThe media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.Malcolm X / quote ↗
04c. 1945 ADPower in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.Malcolm X / quote ↗
05c. 1945 ADThe goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.Malcolm X / quote ↗
06c. 1945 ADThe Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.Malcolm X / quote ↗
07c. 1945 ADDespite 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.Malcolm X / quote ↗
08c. 1945 ADI'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.Malcolm X / quote ↗
09c. 1945 ADYou're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.Malcolm X / quote ↗
10c. 1945 ADBeing an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.Malcolm X / quote ↗
11c. 1945 ADEducation is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.Malcolm X / quote ↗
14c. 1945 ADGood 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 / quote ↗
15c. 1945 ADYou can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.Malcolm X / quote ↗
16c. 1945 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
17c. 1945 ADPower 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1945 ADI believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.Malcolm X / quote ↗
21c. 1945 ADIn the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'Malcolm X / quote ↗
22c. 1945 ADIf you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.Malcolm X / quote ↗
23c. 1945 ADYou don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.Malcolm X / quote ↗
24c. 1945 ADIn 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 / quote ↗
