Malcolm X

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

“If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.”

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

“America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.”

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

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

“If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”

“In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.”