If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The people listening very closely to what the Muslims have always declared. They'll find that in every declaration there's the fact that,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to… — 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
Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 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
They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
X is not my real name. But if you study history, you'll find why no Black man in the Western Hemisphere knows… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper… — 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