Malcolm X

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— Malcolm X

I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.

— Malcolm X

My sincerity is my credentials.

— Malcolm X

White America is in the minority.

— Malcolm X

Respect me, or put me to death.

— Malcolm X

History is not hatred.

— Malcolm X

Revolutions are never peaceful.

— Malcolm X

Only the mistakes were mine.

— Malcolm X

For tommorow belongs to those that prepare for it today.

— Malcolm X

Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

— Malcolm X

You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.

— Malcolm X

“If something is yours by right, then fight for it or shut up.”

— Malcolm X

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.

— Malcolm X

I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die.

— Malcolm X

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

— Malcolm X

America just reaped what it had been sowing.

— Malcolm X

Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits.

— Malcolm X

Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself.

— 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

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

— Malcolm X

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!

— Malcolm X

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

— Malcolm X

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or…

— 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

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life…

— Malcolm X

What does a black man look like begging for a cup of coffee in a white restaurant, and doesn't have a job…

— Malcolm X

Renaissance or the reawakening of Europe. And, and this reawakening actually involved an era during which the people of Europe, who were…

— 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

While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized…

— Malcolm X

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same…

— Malcolm X

Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase…

— Malcolm X

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his…

— 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

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

Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about…

— Malcolm X

The Messenger has seen God. He was with Allah and was given divine patience with the devil. He is willing to wait…

— Malcolm X

Internal differences within the Nation of Islam forced me out of it. I did not leave of my own free will. But…

— Malcolm X

Just as plagues were visited on Pharaoh so will pestilences and disasters be visited on the white man. Why, it has already…

— 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

More so than any other city on the African continent, the people of Cairo look like the American Negroes in the sense…

— Malcolm X