As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Whoever is standing up telling the white man that his position is unjust and that the black people should not have to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah… — 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
You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 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
I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you have an all-white neighborhood you don't call it a segregated neighborhood. But you call an all-black neighborhood a segregated neighborhood.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from… — 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