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

You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising…

— Raoul Peck

During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept…

— Malcolm X

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

— Malcolm X

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

— Malcolm X

We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from…

— Malcolm X

Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness…

— Malcolm X

There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But…

— Malcolm X

By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this…

— Malcolm X

I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality…

— Malcolm X

When I was in Mecca I noticed that their, they had no color problem. That they had people there whose eyes were blue and…

— Malcolm X

Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and…

— Malcolm X

Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colours and races…

— Malcolm X

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

— Malcolm X

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn…

— Malcolm X

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

— Malcolm X