Malcolm X Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Respect, Ghetto

• When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Believe, Men

  Malcolm X (1992). “By Any Means Necessary”, Pathfinder Press (NY)

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

  Malcolm X

  Success, Failure, Deeds

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.391, Ballantine Books

• There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Spiritual, Environmental

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.401, Ballantine Books

• Renaissance or the reawakening of Europe. And, and this reawakening actually involved an era during which the people of Europe, who were coming out of the Dark Ages, were then adopting the value system of the people in the East, in the, of the oriental society.

  Malcolm X

  Dark, Europe, People

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• These were African-Arab-Asian values. The only section of Europe that had a high value system during the Dark Ages was the, were those on the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France.

  Malcolm X

  Dark, Europe, Southern

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

• That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting these so-called middle-class values, standards, it's not that they are taking something from the white man, but they are probably identifying again with the level or standard that these same whites have gotten from them back during that period.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Class

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

• ... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Attitude, Weakness

• I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Class, White

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

• And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago.

  Malcolm X

  Years, Class, Four

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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