The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only… — 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
When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white… — 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
A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today… — 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've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the… — 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
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that if the - what should happen is the black man himself should learn how to develop… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white… — 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… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when… — 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
The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community;… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from… — 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
Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great… — 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
You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land… — 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