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 Copy Share Image
In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I might add how in the world can you say, or can anyone say, that it will dignify the American Negro to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that the black people in this country have the reached the point where they should reserve the right to do… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If I did see a white man who was willing to go to jail or throw himself in front of a car… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration! — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist. — 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
If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived. — Malcolm X Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth! — Malcolm X Copy Share
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with… — Malcolm X Copy Share