Malcolm X Quotes

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!

It is better to die standing, than to live bending.

If our people are to fight their way up out of bondage we must arm them with the sword and the shield and the buckler of pride.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

No one can live under degradation.

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

Freedom can never be reached by the weak.

No more fear. No more begging and pleading.

We as men, need to give the Indian women all the strength that she needs, rightfully asking to be able to walk with head held high.

Love liberates you and gives you the power to make the impossible possible.

You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.

To have found a great people sunk in the lowest depths of slavery and superstition, to have so ruled them as to have made them desirous and capable of all the privileges of citizens, would indeed be a title to glory all our own.

I am myne owene woman, wel at ese

Unmanacle the slave… unsceptre the despot… erect an altar on the Inquisition’s grace, to raise a people to the altitude of freedom.

It is a momentous thing to be the instrument, under Providence, of the liberation of a race.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love