Malcolm X

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

History proves that the white man is a devil.