“A man curses because he doesn't have the words to say what's on his mind.” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it… — 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
We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of… — 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
Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life… — 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
[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man… — 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
I think the black man in America wants to be recognized as a human being; and it's almost impossible for one who… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It gives [a man] the incentive to develop his dormant potential so that when he becomes a part of the brotherhood of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Looking back, I think I really was at least slightly out of my mind. I viewed narcotics as most people regard food.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life… — 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