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 XI have gone through the process of re-evaluating, giving a personal re-evaluation to everything that I ever believed and that I did believe while I was a, a member and a minister.
Malcolm XThe main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.
Malcolm XSo over you is the greatest enemy a man can have โ and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth โ you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear...
Malcolm XWhen we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing.
Malcolm X