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America Quotes by Malcolm X
- The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to…
- The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle…
- The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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'…
- 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…
- If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right…
- If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black…
- When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's…
- I know that societies often have killed people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having…
- The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not…
- The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is…
- Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.
- They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice…
- Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can…
- If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it…
- There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we…
- America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.
- That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck.
- If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate…
- One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self…
- [Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man re-evaluate himself. Don't…
More America Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon