Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

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.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

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

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from...

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.

I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. You can't have capitalism without racism.

Revolutions are fought to get control of land, to remove the absentee landlord and gain control of the land and the institutions that flow from that land.

If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism.