Malcolm X Quotes About Nonviolence

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  • I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk.

  • I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.

    "The Ballot or The Bullet". Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, April 3, 1964.
  • Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

    Source: nyx.uky.edu
  • Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

    Men  
    "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book by George Breitman (p. 22), 1965.
  • Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

    Source: nyx.uky.edu
  • I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

    Men  
    Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.374, Ballantine Books
  • Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

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Malcolm X

  • Born: May 19, 1925
  • Died: February 21, 1965
  • Occupation: Human rights activist