Malcolm X Quotes

I think that I am willing to risk my life in order to have more freedom.

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.

I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.

The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.