If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made… — 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
It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Whenever any black man in america shows signs of an uncompromising attitude, against the injustices that he experiences daily, and shows no… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Instead of the Negro leaders having the black man begging for a chance to - to dine in white restaurants, the Negro… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of… — 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