Behinds Quote by Malcolm X

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

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

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

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

“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…

— Carter G. Woodson

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables…

— Malcolm X

“There are others, honest men beyond all doubt and sincerely concerned with their people's welfare, who seem to feel that it is the duty…

— Paul Robeson

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

— Malcolm X

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

— Frantz Fanon

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

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation…

— Louis Farrakhan

There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst…

— Nelson Mandela