Malcolm X Revolution Quotations

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them...

Revolutions are never peaceful.

You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.