"Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I..." - Quote by Malcolm X

“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.”

“If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.”

“Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.”

“Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.”

“Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.”

“Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.”

“Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.”

“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.”

“What a fool honesty is.”