Malcolm X Famous Quotes
"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American."
"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."
"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
"Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else."
Malcolm X Quotations
"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things."
Woody Allen
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.
George Saintsbury
"By the time we've made it, we've had it."
Malcolm Forbes
"Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies."
Alexander Pope
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Unknown
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
Ann Landers
"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."
Samuel Johnson
"How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either."
S Hayakawa
"True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it."
William Penn
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope