Malcolm X Quotes

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• It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology…
• The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which…
• Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle…
• 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 usually well-dressed and…
• Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way…
• We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us…
• Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.
• The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a…
• Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically…
• The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares for the farmers'…
• The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will…
• It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.
• Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that…
• And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might…
• Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.
• Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.
• They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight…
• America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the…
• The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of…
• New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang…

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