Malcolm X

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed."

"Out of America's youth comes a revolutionary spirit."

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty."

"There seems to be a constant need among certain groups to rewrite and readdress history."

"You show me a Black man who doesn't want to drive a Cadillac and I'll show you someone fooling himself."

"In the interest of justice and peace, we should treat all groups with equality."

"The problem is that America is more interested in profit than in the welfare of its people."

"A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own manhood, it can never fulfill itself."

"We've got to change our own people, clean up our own communities and stand on our own feet."

"There is no tomorrow. There is only one time, and that is now."

"You can't separate the poor people from the rich people without revolution."

"Make America a place where we don't have to sit at anybody else's table."

"We have a people who are being victimized. We want to stop the victimization."

"The only way to solve it is for the Black man in America to get in a position of power."

"As long as the so-called Negro is satisfied with jim crow, he'll stay in jim crow."

"A man who believes in nothing will fall for anything."

"You are not supposed to be blind when it comes to the truth. Look for it wherever it is."

"The only way to stop a man from treating you bad is to stop participating in his system."

"We need new symbols. We need new thoughts. We need new dreams."

"The white man's number one fear is Black unity."

"I am a marked man. This thing with me will be resolved by death and violence."

"You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-other-cheek revolution."

"In fact, we are not going to get freedom from the white man. We are going to take our freedom."

"It is impossible for a person to believe in himself until someone else believes in him first."

"The price of truth is often great loss."

"Once I was a drinker, once I was a drug addict. I can change. You can change too."

"Stop wearing a blind fold. Open up your eyes and look at yourself."

"We should emphasize the strength and beauty of Black culture."

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."

"You've been a nation of sheep; you've been ruled over by all these forces for so long."