Today Quotes by Malcolm X

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

— Malcolm X

For tommorow belongs to those that prepare for it today.

— Malcolm X

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast.…

— Malcolm X

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

— Malcolm X

Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.

— Malcolm X

It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that…

— Malcolm X

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together…

— Malcolm X

Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase…

— Malcolm X

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

— Malcolm X

What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not…

— Malcolm X

It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire…

— Malcolm X

And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black…

— Malcolm X

It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a…

— Malcolm X

The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they…

— Malcolm X

10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all…

— Malcolm X

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

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

That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like…

— Malcolm X

Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan…

— Malcolm X

We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must…

— Malcolm X

Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then…

— Malcolm X

The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares…

— 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

A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today…

— Malcolm X

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today…

— Malcolm X

If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you…

— 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

The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for…

— Malcolm X

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of…

— 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

X is not my real name. But if you study history, you'll find why no Black man in the Western Hemisphere knows…

— Malcolm X

[White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't…

— Malcolm X

Just like Pharaoh couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Moses, or Nebuchadnezzar or Belshazzar couldn't get a…

— Malcolm X

A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to…

— 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

Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus,…

— 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