Famous Quotes

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

Malcolm X on Respect

More quotes about Respect

• "An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Respect

• "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

  Abraham Lincoln on Respect

• "I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

  Jackie Robinson on Respect

More quotes by Malcolm X

• "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."

• "You can't legislate good will - that comes through education."

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

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