Malcolm X

My sincerity is my credentials.

— Malcolm X

White America is in the minority.

— Malcolm X

Respect me, or put me to death.

— Malcolm X

How can anyone be against love?

— Malcolm X

America is a white man's country.

— Malcolm X

“BOOKS… "The Loom of Language”

— Malcolm X

I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.

— Malcolm X

Stumbling is not falling.

— Malcolm X

That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck.

— Malcolm X

Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.

— Malcolm X

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

— Malcolm X

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

— Malcolm X

“I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.”

— Malcolm X

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

— Malcolm X

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

— Malcolm X

“It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come”

— Malcolm X

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

— Malcolm X

I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

— Malcolm X

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in…

— Malcolm X

“If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”

— Malcolm X

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

— Malcolm X

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

— Malcolm X

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

— Malcolm X

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of…

— Malcolm X

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself…

— 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

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

— Malcolm X

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice…

— Malcolm X

The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans,…

— Malcolm X

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight…

— Malcolm X

“And concerning anything in this society involved in helping Negroes, the federal government shows an inability to function. But it can function…

— Malcolm X

I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom,…

— Malcolm X

When you have your own bus, then you have dignity. When you have your own school, you have dignity. When you have…

— Malcolm X

The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you…

— Malcolm X

Instead of working for white man and helping him hold up a government that continues to suppress us socially and, and exploit…

— 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

“Where the really sincere white people have got to do their “proving” of themselves is not among the black victims, but out…

— Malcolm X

You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up…

— Malcolm X

In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again -…

— Malcolm X

“Eventually my mother suffered a complete breakdown, and the court orders were finally signed. They took her to the State Mental Hospital…

— Malcolm X