Racism Quotes by Malcolm X

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

— Malcolm X

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

— Malcolm X

America is a white man's country.

— Malcolm X

White America is in the minority.

— Malcolm X

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

— Malcolm X

We are about to have a racial explosion.

— Malcolm X

There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca].

— Malcolm X

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

— Malcolm X

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

— Malcolm X

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

— Malcolm X

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

— Malcolm X

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

— Malcolm X

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

— Malcolm X

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

— Malcolm X

Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

— Malcolm X

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

— Malcolm X

“I’ve often reflected upon such black veteran numbers men as West Indian Archie. If they had lived in another kind of society,…

— Malcolm X

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community;…

— Malcolm X

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives,…

— Malcolm X

They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the…

— Malcolm X

The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes…

— Malcolm X

The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white…

— Malcolm X

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function…

— Malcolm X

Many of them who belong to these countries that were former colonial powers have racist attitudes, but their racist attitude is never…

— Malcolm X

That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like…

— Malcolm X

I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white…

— Malcolm X

If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who…

— Malcolm X

Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the…

— Malcolm X

Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per -…

— Malcolm X

I think the black man in America wants to be recognized as a human being; and it's almost impossible for one who…

— Malcolm X

White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts…

— Malcolm X

Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency,…

— Malcolm X

The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in…

— Malcolm X

“And because I had been a hustler, I knew better than all whites knew, and better than nearly all of the black…

— Malcolm X

At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the…

— Malcolm X

If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry…

— Malcolm X

“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had…

— Malcolm X

Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's…

— Malcolm X

“I tell sincere white people, 'Work in conjunction with us- each of us working among our own kind.' Let sincere white individuals…

— Malcolm X

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

— Malcolm X