American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts]… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime… — 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
The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution A time where there's got to be a change. People in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed… — 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
Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Those who stay here can help those who go back, and those who go back can help those who stay here in… — 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
They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't have any hate. I've got some sense. I'm not going to let anybody who hates me tell me to love… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough… — 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 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
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the way to solve this problem is for the white man to give us some territory… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts… — 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