Malcolm X Quotes

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

We ask to be recognized as men.

I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.

Fighting for human rights, a commitment to social justice and treating people with dignity are all things that are important to us as Canadians.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

I stand up for all rights.

I am passionate about human rights.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

Freedom is not enough.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

Is the Jew a man? He is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, my fellow; and he shall not, if I can prevent it, be a slave! I demand for him equal rights and privileges, and a place within the pale of the Constitution!" Let all the people say, Even so, AMEN!

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people - they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.

We all have as much right to take up our space in the world as one another.

For me, it's simple: everybody deserves the same rights.