Top 4 Malcom X Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven’t pulled the knife out; they won’t even admit that it’s there.”

— Malcom X

2. “Instead, both heaven and hell were conditions in which people lived right here on this planet Earth. Mr. Fard taught that the black person in America had been for 400 years in hell, and he, Mr. Fard, had come to return them to where heaven for them was – back home, among their own kind.”

— Malcom X

3. “The white man has taught us to shout and sing and pray until we die, to wait until death, for some dreamy heaven-in-the-hereafter when we’re dead, while this white man has his milk and honey in the streets paved with golden dollars right here on this Earth.”

— Malcom X

4. “Learning to Read”: I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books.”

— Malcom X

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