Awareness Quotes

"We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way."

- Malcolm X

"America preaches integration and practices segregation."

- Malcolm X

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker."

- Malcolm X

"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."

- Malcolm X

"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."

- Malcolm X

"America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam."

- Malcolm X

"What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise."

- Malcolm X

"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating 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."

- Malcolm X

"The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless."

- Malcolm X

"There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States."

- Malcolm X

"The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'"

- Malcolm X

"You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself."

- Malcolm X

"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today."

- Malcolm X

"They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want."

- Malcolm X

"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us."

- Malcolm X

"The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in the divinity of Elijah Muhammad. We believed in him. We actually believed that God, in Detroit by the way, that God had taught him and all of that. I always believed that he believed in himself. And I was shocked when I found out that he himself didn't believe it."

- Malcolm X

"How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?"

- Malcolm X

"I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare."

- Malcolm X

"During the past seven days of this holy pilgrimage, while undergoing the rituals of the hajj [pilgrimage], I have eaten from the same plate, drank from the same glass, slept on the same bed or rug, while praying to the same God—not only with some of this earth’s most powerful kings, cabinet members, potentates and other forms of political and religious rulers —but also with fellow‐Muslims whose skin was the whitest of white, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, and whose hair was the blondest of blond—yet it was the first time in my life that I didn’t see them as ‘White’ men. I could look into their faces and see that these didn’t regard themselves as ‘White’"

- Malcolm X

"If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."

- Malcolm X

"Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner. You must be eating 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."

- Malcolm X

"We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us."

- Malcolm X

"All that you are is all around you."

- Stephen Richards

"You can dream of anything you like, whenever you like, and as much as you like. But when you do, always remember that some dreams will never come true! Perfection is one of them!"

- Mouloud Benzadi

"Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told."

- Alan Keightley

"For a dream to come true, you have to wake up first."

- Stevan V. Nikolic

"Those who dream by day are cognisant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"A man’s motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man."

- Haniel Long

"When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you."