Malcolm X Quotes

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.

Wrong must not win by technicalities.

Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

The foundation for moral leadership is the truth.

Truth Alone Triumphs

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.

We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.

I say that justice is truth in action.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Justice is truth in action.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

I like honesty and fair play.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Ethics to me is very important.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.