Quotes about Empowerment
I was completely nuts for most of my life.
— Roseanne Barr
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
— Ruth Gordon
These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.
— Malcolm X
By making our people in the Western Hemisphere hate Africa, we ended up hating ourselves. We hated our African characteristics. We hated our African identity. We hated our African features. So much so that you would find those of us in the West who would hate the shape of our nose. We would hate the shape of our lips. We would hate the color of our skin and the texture of our hair. This was a reaction, but we didn't realize that it was a reaction.
— Malcolm X
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you really want it, you take it.
— Malcolm X
In any organization, someone must be the boss. If it's even just one person, you've got to be the boss of yourself.
— Malcolm X
No one will know who we are... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!
— Malcolm X
All praise is due to Allah that I went to Boston when I did. If I hadn't, I'd probably still be a brainwashed black Christian.
— Malcolm X
Bütün uyuyanlar? uyand?rmaya bir tek uyan?k yeter.
— Malcolm X
Under the pitiful misapprehension that it would make them better, these Hill Negroes were breaking their backs trying to imitate white people.
— Malcolm X
My black brothers and sisters—no one will know who we are…until we know who we are! We never will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!
— Malcolm X
Standing there by that Harvard window, I silently vowed to Allah that I never would forget that any wings I wore had been put on by the religion of Islam. That fact I never have forgotten . . . not for one second
— Malcolm X