"Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is..." - Quote by Malcolm X

“If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.”

“I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.”

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

“It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.”

“Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.”

“Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.”

“When the most important things in our life happen wequite often do not know, at the moment, what isgoing on.”

“Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.”

“Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.”