Black people Quotes by Malcolm X

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

— Malcolm X

“So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves.”

— Malcolm X

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

— Malcolm X

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

— Malcolm X

God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

— Malcolm X

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

— 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

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

My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the…

— Malcolm X

We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people…

— Malcolm X

No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same…

— Malcolm X

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have…

— Malcolm X

The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people…

— Malcolm X

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today…

— Malcolm X

We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must…

— Malcolm X

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history…

— Malcolm X

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

— Malcolm X

No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the…

— 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 greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It…

— Malcolm X

Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And…

— Malcolm X

I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody…

— 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

“I tell sincere white people, 'Work in conjunction with us- each of us working among our own kind.' Let sincere white individuals…

— Malcolm X

Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are…

— Malcolm X

If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry…

— Malcolm X

“The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It…

— Malcolm X

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have…

— Malcolm X

The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when…

— Malcolm X

I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning…

— 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

In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will…

— 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

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

If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to…

— Malcolm X

The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad…

— Malcolm X

You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode…

— Malcolm X

When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed…

— Malcolm X

The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia…

— Malcolm X

We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow,…

— Malcolm X