When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
... I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in… — 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
It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog… — 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
If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost… — 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
If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The number one thing that has to be done, [black men] has to be retaught, be given - he has to be… — 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 only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. — 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
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
I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man,… — 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
The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It… — 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