Racism Quotes by Malcolm X · Page 2

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.

— Malcolm X

Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.

— Malcolm X

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

— Malcolm X

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

— Malcolm X

It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism.

— Malcolm X

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

— Malcolm X

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

— Malcolm X

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

— Malcolm X

My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge…

— Malcolm X

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of…

— Malcolm X

You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the…

— Malcolm X

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

Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the…

— Malcolm X

Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter…

— Malcolm X

Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective…

— Malcolm X

[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this.

— Malcolm X

Once the white man let the Negro get an education, the Negro began to want what the white man has. But he…

— Malcolm X

The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got…

— Malcolm X

As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the…

— Malcolm X

The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy…

— Malcolm X

A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days,…

— Malcolm X

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on…

— Malcolm X

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

You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself.…

— Malcolm X

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

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

— Malcolm X

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

— Malcolm X

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

— Malcolm X

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

— Malcolm X

Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

— Malcolm X

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

— Malcolm X

When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.

— Malcolm X

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

— Malcolm X

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

— Malcolm X

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

— Malcolm X

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

— Malcolm X

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

— Malcolm X

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

— Malcolm X

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

— Malcolm X

The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch…

— Malcolm X