We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't know - too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. — 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 be kind… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image