Racism Quotes by Malcolm X

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

— Malcolm X

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

— Malcolm X

There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca].

— Malcolm X

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

— Malcolm X

We are about to have a racial explosion.

— Malcolm X

White America is in the minority.

— Malcolm X

America is a white man's country.

— Malcolm X

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

— Malcolm X

“The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And”

— Malcolm X

Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical.

— Malcolm X

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

— Malcolm X

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

— Malcolm X

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.

— Malcolm X

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

— Malcolm X

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

— Malcolm X

Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.

— Malcolm X

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it…

— Malcolm X

The only minority in America that's asking for integration is the so-called Negro, primarily because he is inferior, not inherently inferior, but…

— Malcolm X

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have…

— Malcolm X

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious…

— Malcolm X

I'm inclined to believe that most Negro leaders, professional Negroes are professional Negroes. Being a Negro is their professional, and being a…

— Malcolm X

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or…

— Malcolm X

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

I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York…

— Malcolm X

You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode…

— Malcolm X

If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear…

— Malcolm X

We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you…

— Malcolm X

I looked on the television the other night and saw them beating a Negro unmercifully in Mississippi. And this is the result…

— Malcolm X

You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear…

— Malcolm X

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate…

— Malcolm X

The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia…

— Malcolm X

[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

“I tell sincere white people, 'Work in conjunction with us- each of us working among our own kind.' Let sincere white individuals…

— Malcolm X

Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's…

— Malcolm X

“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had…

— Malcolm X

If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry…

— Malcolm X

At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the…

— Malcolm X

“And because I had been a hustler, I knew better than all whites knew, and better than nearly all of the black…

— Malcolm X

The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in…

— Malcolm X

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

— Malcolm X