Malcolm X Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.

  Malcolm X

  Mistake, Struggle, Men

• I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

  Malcolm X

  Truth, Justice, Humanity

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.421, Ballantine Books

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

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Freedom, Patriotic

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, p. 111, 1965.

• I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Thinking, Color

• When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Mean, Justice

• Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Justice, Might

• Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

  Malcolm X

  Inspiring, Mean, Justice

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

  Malcolm X

  Truth, Justice, Criminal Mind

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book byMalcolm X (p. 400), 1965.

• The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.

  Malcolm X

  America, Rights, Justice

  "Racism: the Cancer that is Destroying America", Egyptian Gazette, August 25, 1964.

• They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice. This is American democracy and those of you who are familiar with it know that in America democracy is hypocrisy. Now, if I’m wrong, put me in jail; but if you can’t prove that democracy is not hypocrisy, then don’t put your hands on me.

  Malcolm X

  Hands, America, Jail

• Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

  Malcolm X

  Land, Justice, Independence

• Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a man's skin happens to be wrong, then I say those people are justified to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice when the government can't give them justice.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, Color

• Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, White, Justice

• One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, People, Justice

• Growing is the result of learning.

  Malcolm X

  Justice, Diversity, Growing

• The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that twenty-two million Black people have not risen up against their oppressors in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria and even by the democratic traditions.

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Men, Hands

• My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Color, Racism

• It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Eggs, Two

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

  Malcolm X

  Sister, Brother, Believe

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

• Any time you know you're within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die for what you believe in. But don't die alone. Let your dying be reciprocal. This is what is meant by equality. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Law, Rights

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

• We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Justice, Diversity

• The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

  Malcolm X

  Justice, Diversity, Asking

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.374, Ballantine Books

• They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."

  Malcolm X

  Teacher, Lying, Justice

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Alex Haley and Malcolm X, 1965.

• We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We don't feel that in 1964, living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom, and supposedly the leader of the free world, we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a President from Texas in Washington, D.C., to make up their minds that our people are due now some degree of civil rights. No, we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Malcolm X (1992). “By Any Means Necessary”, Pathfinder Press (NY)

• That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.

  Malcolm X

  Lying, Justice, Violence

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.373, Ballantine Books

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