Malcolm X

If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.

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

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

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.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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