Malcolm X

"My life has always been one of action, not words."

"You can't teach what you don't know. You can't lead where you won't go."

"The worst crime the white man has committed is not just slavery and lynching, but creating in the mind of black man the idea that he is inferior."

"Progress means getting closer to somewhere you want to be."

"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."

"Be patient. Life isn't a sprint; it's a marathon that requires endurance."

"Recognize that within every person lies the capacity for greatness."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"Truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"Your philosophy makes you who you are."

"The collective white man had nothing to lose by going to the Negro and offering him some tokens."

"If you're not ready to live for it, you shouldn't ask anybody else to die for it."

"We are rising, and the white man knows it. He feels threatened."

"There is no better teacher than history. Learn from the past."

"The opportunity to serve our people is what drives me forward."

"You cannot separate the political consciousness from the social consciousness."

"We should get to know each other better, so we can understand one another better."

"The Negro should be given a chance to do things for himself."

"You can't go forward while looking backward."

"Faith is not something that you can measure and see."

"An oppressed people are created by an oppressive system, not the other way around."

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

"Unity is a great thing, but what we need first is the courage to be independent."

"The most important thing we can do is help one another."

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

"The Western world is going through a very strange time right now."

"It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood."

"Everything that comes is progress."

"Being pimped and being a pimp, that's two different things."

"If you want to know what a man is really like, take everything he says and reverse it."