Knows Quotes by Malcolm X

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

— Malcolm X

Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.

— Malcolm X

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

— Malcolm X

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

— Malcolm X

We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go

— Malcolm X

I know that I will not die until my time comes.

— Malcolm X

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

— Malcolm X

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's…

— Malcolm X

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge…

— Malcolm X

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it…

— Malcolm X

[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll…

— Malcolm X

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

— Malcolm X

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race…

— Malcolm X

Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do…

— Malcolm X

In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again -…

— Malcolm X

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the way to solve this problem is for the white man to give us some territory…

— Malcolm X

Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much…

— Malcolm X

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you…

— Malcolm X

I don't know - too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his…

— Malcolm X

Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us…

— Malcolm X

At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at…

— Malcolm X

Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell…

— Malcolm X

You catch any white man off guard in here right now, you catch him off guard and ask him what he is,…

— Malcolm X

The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The…

— Malcolm X

When you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to…

— Malcolm X

We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator.…

— Malcolm X

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And…

— Malcolm X

The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house…

— Malcolm X

Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are…

— Malcolm X

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

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have…

— Malcolm X

I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or…

— Malcolm X

10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all…

— Malcolm X

They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three…

— Malcolm X

I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group…

— Malcolm X

Any time you know you're within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die…

— Malcolm X

So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid…

— Malcolm X

[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man…

— Malcolm X

They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice.…

— Malcolm X

The number one thing that has to be done, [black men] has to be retaught, be given - he has to be…

— Malcolm X