Thinking Quotes by Malcolm X

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

— Malcolm X

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.

— Malcolm X

I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.

— Malcolm X

Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.

— 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 man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

— 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

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper…

— Malcolm X

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast.…

— Malcolm X

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

— Malcolm X

I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

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I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom,…

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I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an…

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After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that…

— Malcolm X

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

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is…

— Malcolm X

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

I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the…

— Malcolm X

I think that the black people in this country have the reached the point where they should reserve the right to do…

— Malcolm X

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he…

— Malcolm X

Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of…

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

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I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion…

— Malcolm X

The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must…

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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

First I might say that when a person, when a man separates from his wife, at the out start it's a physical…

— Malcolm X

The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house…

— 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

Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned…I had…

— Malcolm X

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

— Malcolm X

We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.

— Malcolm X

The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the…

— Malcolm X

I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's…

— Malcolm X

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for…

— Malcolm X

[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll…

— Malcolm X

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or…

— Malcolm X

I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.

— Malcolm X

In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's -…

— Malcolm X

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

— Malcolm X

I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of…

— Malcolm X