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
If you have an all-white neighborhood you don't call it a segregated neighborhood. But you call an all-black neighborhood a segregated neighborhood.… — 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
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
By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like… — 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
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or… — 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
If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That… — 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
I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out 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
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
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'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
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
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
As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and… — 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
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
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