"If someone puts their hands on you..." - Quote by Malcolm X
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
More by Malcolm X
“Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective self improvement in, whereas our own, wherein our own people are concerned.”
“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?”
“The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.”
More on Self Defense
“No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.”
“Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.”
“As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.”
More on Justice
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.”
“Justice is what you get when you run out of money.”
“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.”