I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York,… — 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
“I want to say before I go on that I have never previously told anyone my sordid past in detail. I haven't… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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
While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“When the meat platter was passed to me, I didn't even know what the meat was; usually, you couldn't tell, anyway-but it… — 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
“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
What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The religious philosophy that they had adopted, in my opinion, was the only thing and is the only thing that can remove… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at… — 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