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Man Quotes by Malcolm X
- 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 collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
- I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance'! White people seem to think the black ought to be shouting 'hallelujah'! Four hundred…
- Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is…
- 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…
- That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly…
- In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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'…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man…
- What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists.…
- We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we…
- ...What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front…
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