I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach… — 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
This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes… — 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
By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right.… — 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