If I go home and someone, and my child has blood running down her leg and someone tells me that a snake… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
That's not our problem, that's America's problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts]… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Can you accuse me, if a man is putting a rope around my neck, of being violent, when I violently struggle against… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Whoever is standing up telling the white man that his position is unjust and that the black people should not have to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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
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
Why can't the black man have a God? What's so wrong when a black man says his God will protect him form… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog,… — 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 you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if… — 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
The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that if the - what should happen is the black man himself should learn how to develop… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me.… — 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… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be… — 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