"Reform is for people who have government..." - Quote by Malcolm X

“The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.”

“Some things are better done than said.”

“We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.”

“Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.”

“We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society . . . . What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed.”

“Well I am always interested my people's right. But I will push myself to a revolution without arms.”

“I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.”

“When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?”

“Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.”