If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says number one, [Negro] must know - have a knowledge of himself. And this gives him confidence in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
That's not our problem, that's America's problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Just like Pharaoh couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Moses, or Nebuchadnezzar or Belshazzar couldn't get a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived. — Malcolm X Copy Share
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share
Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist,… — Malcolm X Copy Share
Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind… — Malcolm X Copy Share
We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and… — Malcolm X Copy Share
I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and… — Malcolm X Copy Share
Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble. — Malcolm X Copy Share
Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables… — Malcolm X Copy Share
Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth! — Malcolm X Copy Share
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with… — Malcolm X Copy Share