“We cannot teach what we do not know and we cannot lead where we will not go.” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison]. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I'm inclined to believe that most Negro leaders, professional Negroes are professional Negroes. Being a Negro is their professional, and being a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
[White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't… — 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… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must… — 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