Ends Quote by Malcolm X

Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison].

— Malcolm X

It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition,…

— Malcolm X

Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or…

— Malcolm X

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

— Thomas Sowell

The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally…

— Marcus Garvey

I'm inclined to believe that most Negro leaders, professional Negroes are professional Negroes. Being a Negro is their professional, and being a profe -…

— Malcolm X

“Power is never given, it's taken." It is an open secret that there exists a conflict between a new generation of young black leadership…

— Wesley Lowery

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

— Malcolm X

Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they…

— Malcolm X

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

— Malcolm X

The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large…

— H. L. Mencken

We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close…

— W. E. B. Du Bois