Malcolm X

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

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

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

You can't have capitalism without racism.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.