If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people]… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
[ Uncle Sam] is not sending 20 billion dollars to South America because he loves those people down here. He's sending it… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In Harlem, for instance, all of the stores are owned by white people, all of the buildings are owned by white people.… — 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
What Mr. Muhammad says is, they should take their Navy and their - Merchant Fleet and ship us back where they got… — 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
No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another 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,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
[People] have a fear of the, the Muslim movement and the Muslim religion because it has a tendency to make the people… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right. — 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
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