"If you stick a knife in my back 9 in and pull it out 6 in, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They won’t even admit the knife is there" 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 
"You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom" Malcolm X
"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything" Malcolm X
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today" Malcolm X
"Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?" Malcolm X
"We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity" 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" Malcolm X
