Racism Quotes by Malcolm X · Page 2

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

— Malcolm X

When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.

— Malcolm X

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

— Malcolm X

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

— Malcolm X

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

— Malcolm X

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

— Malcolm X

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

— Malcolm X

It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism.

— Malcolm X

Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.

— Malcolm X

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature…

— Malcolm X

You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of…

— Malcolm X

Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out…

— Malcolm X

I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from…

— Malcolm X

I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost…

— Malcolm X

I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping…

— Malcolm X

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the…

— Malcolm X

The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength -…

— Malcolm X

If I did see a white man who was willing to go to jail or throw himself in front of a car…

— Malcolm X

One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have…

— Malcolm X

I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or…

— Malcolm X

The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common…

— Malcolm X

Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell…

— Malcolm X

By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is…

— Malcolm X

After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that…

— Malcolm X

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

— Malcolm X

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

— Malcolm X

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

— Malcolm X

Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.

— Malcolm X

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

— Malcolm X

Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.

— Malcolm X

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.

— Malcolm X

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

— Malcolm X

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.

— Malcolm X

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

— Malcolm X

Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical.

— Malcolm X

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

— Malcolm X

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

— Malcolm X

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

— Malcolm X

“The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And”

— Malcolm X

We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white…

— Malcolm X