Malcolm X Education Quotations

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

Education is our passport to the future.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares for the farmers' needs. There is a Department of Health, Education and Welfare. There is a Department of the Interior - in which the Indians are included. Is the farmer, the doctor, the Indian, the greatest problem in America today? No - it is the black man! There ought to be a Pentagon-sized Washington department dealing with every segment of the black man's problems.