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
Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made… — 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 thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The number one thing that has to be done, [black men] has to be retaught, be given - he has to be… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt could easily have told negroes the deceitful maneuvering of the United States government that was going on behind the scenes.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into… — 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