One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people]… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Renaissance or the reawakening of Europe. And, and this reawakening actually involved an era during which the people of Europe, who were… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I was in Mecca I noticed that their, they had no color problem. That they had people there whose eyes were… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the way to solve this problem is for the white man to give us some territory… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colours… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I might add how in the world can you say, or can anyone say, that it will dignify the American Negro to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution A time where there's got to be a change. People in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think that the black people in this country have the reached the point where they should reserve the right to do… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It… — 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