Years Quotes by Malcolm X

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

— Malcolm X

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

— Malcolm X

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

— Malcolm X

In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before…

— Malcolm X

I might add, the whites who came here only say 50 years ago as immigrants have come into this country, they have…

— Malcolm X

The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and…

— Malcolm X

It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro…

— Malcolm X

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious…

— Malcolm X

How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked…

— Malcolm X

And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these…

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In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration,…

— Malcolm X

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in…

— Malcolm X

For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad…

— Malcolm X

American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred…

— Malcolm X

I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be…

— Malcolm X

I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved…

— Malcolm X

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

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We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow,…

— Malcolm X

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

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If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry…

— Malcolm X

You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the…

— Malcolm X

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the…

— Malcolm X

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the…

— Malcolm X

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same…

— Malcolm X

Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an -…

— 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

Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us…

— Malcolm X

All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a…

— 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

Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per -…

— Malcolm X

I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning…

— Malcolm X