Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to… — 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
For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad… — 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
As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want… — 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
You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution A time where there's got to be a change. People in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough… — 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
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making… — 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
Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books."… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of… — 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
Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been… — 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