Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem. — 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
Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What does a black man look like begging for a cup of coffee in a white restaurant, and doesn't have a job… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right. And all we're asking for… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
They came to this country they, they were Hungarians, they were Communists from a Communist country. And right now those Hungarian freedom… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians.… — 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… — 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
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