"It is not a case of our people...wanting……" — Malcolm X
"It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings."
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Malcolm X
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377 Quotes by Malcolm X
Malcolm X has 377 quotes on this site.
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One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and…
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We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting…
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The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being.…
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The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!
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My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we…
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Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.
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Growing is the result of learning.
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The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown…
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When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary…
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It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it…
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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
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I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does…
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to…
— William Wells Brown
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The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being.…
— Malcolm X
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Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans…
— Thurgood Marshall
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I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps…
— Malcolm X
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Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was…
— Helen McCrory
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In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really…
— Sugar Ray Leonard
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The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the…
— Harryette Mullen
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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man…
— Ida B. Wells
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
— Ida B. Wells
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Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch…
— Colson Whitehead
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I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be…
— Miriam Makeba
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
— Fidel Castro
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