Top 350 Malcolm X Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The common enemy is the white man.”

— Malcolm X

102. “What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.”

— Malcolm X

103. “Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday’s and today’s school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.”

— Malcolm X

104. “Growing is the result of learning.”

— Malcolm X

105. “I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.”

— Malcolm X

106. “The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.”

— Malcolm X

107. “I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.”

— Malcolm X

108. “That is a lie. I’m not for wanton violence, I’m for justice.”

— Malcolm X

109. “It’s liberty or death! It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody!”

— Malcolm X

110. “It’s impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism.”

— Malcolm X

111. “Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I’ve seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage.”

— Malcolm X

112. “Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.”

— Malcolm X

113. “The white man was created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.”

— Malcolm X

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

— Malcolm X

115. “But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti-Semite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn’t ’t pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti-Semite.”

— Malcolm X

116. “If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.”

— Malcolm X

117. “When you hear me say “by any means necessary,” I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.”

— Malcolm X

118. “If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”

— Malcolm X

119. “We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.”

— Malcolm X

120. “You and I have never seen democracy – all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.”

— Malcolm X

121. “Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.”

— Malcolm X

122. “Truth does not change, only our awareness of it.”

— Malcolm X

123. “How can you thank a man for giving you what’s yours?”

— Malcolm X

124. “I don’t favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I’m also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people.”

— Malcolm X

125. “The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution.”

— Malcolm X

126. “To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.”

— Malcolm X

127. “Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.”

— Malcolm X

128. “Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.”

— Malcolm X

129. “We won’t organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.”

— Malcolm X

130. “I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.”

— Malcolm X

131. “It’ll be the ballot or the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death.”

— Malcolm X

132. “Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick.”

— Malcolm X

133. “Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.”

— Malcolm X

134. “I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land – every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike – all snored in the same language.”

— Malcolm X

135. “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

136. “You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it’s hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.”

— Malcolm X

137. “It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”

— Malcolm X

138. “The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.”

— Malcolm X

139. “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who is for or against it.”

— Malcolm X

140. “It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That’s the only thing that can save this country.”

— Malcolm X

141. “I’m not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.”

— Malcolm X

142. “Yes, I’m an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn’t an extremist and I’ll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.”

— Malcolm X

143. “I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his...”

— Malcolm X

144. “Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourselves.”

— Malcolm X

145. “History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”

— Malcolm X

146. “You don’t have a peaceful revolution. You don’t have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There’s no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.”

— Malcolm X

147. “How can anyone be against love?”

— Malcolm X

148. “When I was in prison, I read an article – don’t be shocked when I say I was in prison. You’re still in prison. That’s what America means: prison.”

— Malcolm X

149. “If Africa wasn’t beautiful the white man wouldn’t want it.”

— Malcolm X

150. “Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.”

— Malcolm X