We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us.

Malcolm X

The Ballot or the Bullet

More information about this quote

Topic

Black experience

Speaker

Malcolm X

Source

The Ballot or the Bullet

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Inversion

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Black activist Civil rights activist Activist

From

United States

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." 29 Mar. 1964, Audubon Ballroom, Washington Heights, NY, USA.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Malcolm X about black experience: “We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us.”
Download
A quote by Malcolm X about black experience: “We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us.”
Download
A quote by Malcolm X about black experience: “We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us.”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote by Malcolm X

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us!

Malcolm X

Watch Malcolm X at Amazon Watch Malcolm X at Amazon
More information about this quote
Topic
Black experience
Speaker
Malcolm X
Actor
Denzel Washington
Source
Malcolm X
Medium
Film
Genre
Biography (film) Drama (film) Biography Drama
Language
English
Time
1992 1990s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Malcolm X. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1992.

Another quote from the 1960s

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin

More information about this quote
Topic
Nature of freedom Liberation Freedom

Author

James Baldwin
Source
Notes for a Hypothetical Novel Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
Medium
Essay
Language
English
Time
1961 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Baldwin, James. "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel." Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. Dial Press, 1961.

Another quote from the following genre Political speech

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

Abraham Lincoln

More information about this quote
Topic
Equanimity
Speaker
Abraham Lincoln
Source
Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1859 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin." 30 Sept. 1859, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.