Malcolm and Martin

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”

― the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”

― Malcolm X

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

― Malcolm X

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“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

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

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“I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don’t think it will be based on the color of the skin…”

― Malcolm X

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.”

― Malcolm X

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.”

― Malcolm X

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“You don’t stick a knife in a man’s back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you’re making progress … No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn’t exist for me.”

― Malcolm X

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”

― Malcolm X

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“And when I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy – all we’ve seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don’t see any American dream. We’ve experienced only the American nightmare.”

― Malcolm X

“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I cannot be Silent.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.”

― Malcolm X

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.”

― Malcolm X

“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If you don’t stand for something you fall for everything.”

― Malcolm X

“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”

― Malcolm X

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“… the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.”

― Malcolm X,

“The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color”

― Malcolm X

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else.”

― Malcolm X

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come”

― Malcolm X

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

― Malcolm X

“We must substitute courage for caution.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.”

― Malcolm X

“Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided to love.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.