45 Timeless Malcolm X Quotes To Challenge The Tyranny

Malcolm X certainly had his fair share of controversy and alternative views. But one thing is for sure, he was driven to get his message across to his loyal audience. He wanted to challenge the tyranny that existed at the time.

While we may not agree with everything he represented, we pay respect to his relentless pursuit. Here are the best and accurate quotes by Malcolm X:

1. A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

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2. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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3. No one will know who we are… until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are.

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4. 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.

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5. It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come.

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6. You can’t have capitalism without racism.

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7. If you are born in America with a black skin, you’re in prison.

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8. Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.”

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9. The price of freedom is death.

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

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11. It is the process of mis-education that inhibits the full potential of a nation.

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12. One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

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

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14. I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.

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15. 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.

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16. If something is yours by right, then fight for it or shut up.

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17. When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

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18. A man curses because he doesn’t have the words to say what’s on his mind.

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

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20. Time is more important to me than distance.

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21. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”

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22. In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

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

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24. Change is only a good thing if you change in a good way.

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25. Early in life I learned that if you want something, you better make some noise.

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26. Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

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27. Yes, I’m an extremist. The black race… 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!

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28. You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

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29. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

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30. 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.

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31. It’s hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent.

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32. If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

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33. A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.

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34. And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.

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35. Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power.

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36. Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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37. ead absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.

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38. A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.

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39. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.

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40. I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

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41. Dr. King wants the same thing I want. Freedom.

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42. The hardest test I ever faced in my life was praying.

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43. You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.

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44. To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

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45. How can anyone be against love?

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