In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's -… — 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
I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the… — 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