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 Copy Share Image
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus,… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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