Malcolm X

Quotes

• “Whether you are a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Nationalist, we all have the same problem. They don't hang you because yo...”
• “No, I'm not an American. I'm one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the 22 millio...”
• “The next day I was in my car driving along the freeway when at a red light another car pulled alongside. A white woman w...”
• “When Malcolm spoke (or does he still speak?) of being proud of our heritage, Black People were awakened to a new truth: ...”
• “I say again that I'm not a racist, I don't believe in any form of segregation or anything like that. I'm for the brother...”
• “If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black ...”
• “If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it's wrong to be violent defending black women and black c...”
• “And he (Baldwin) recalls the time when he was sitting with Malcolm X and his new baby. "I said: 'Malcolm are you trying ...”
• “If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear ...”
• “We are African, and we happened to be in America. We're not American. We are people who formerly were Africans who were ...”
• “Usually the black racist has been produced by the white racist. In most cases where you see it, it is the reaction to wh...”
• “In Asia or the Arab world or in Africa, where the Muslims are, if you find one who says he's white, all he's doing is us...”
• “Usually, when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they ...”
• “I was one of the ones who didn't really hear Malcolm's voice until it was amplified by death. I had been guilty of what ...”
• “Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your ...”
• “Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by peopl...”
• “The political, the economic philosophy of Black Nationalism only means that we have to become involved in a program of r...”
• “Historically, revolutions are bloody. Oh, yes, they are. They haven't never had a bloodless revolution, or a nonviolent ...”
• “There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity. There can be no workers' solidarity until there...”
• “Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more lig...”
• “Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists...”
• “In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I will never be guilty of that again - as I know...”
• “If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog or a hound dog or any...”
• “A vote for a Democrat is a vote for a Dixiecrat. That's why, in 1964, it's time now for you and me to become more politi...”
• “If it doesn't take senators and congressmen and presidential proclamations to give freedom to the white man, it is not n...”
• “I don't usually deal with those big words because I don't usually deal with big people. I deal with small people. I find...”
• “On that same plantation, there was the field Negro. The field Negroes - those were the masses. There were always more Ne...”
• “I am surprised that the trouble has been contained to the degree it has. Until two years ago, New York City used wiser m...”
• “By the way, right at that time Birmingham had exploded, and the Negroes in Birmingham-remember, they also exploded. They...”
• “The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore...”
• “When Malcolm talks or one of the Muslims talks, they articulate for all the Negro people who hear them; who listen to th...”
• “Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled antisemite. The Jew cries louder than anybody e...”
• “We must understand the politics of our community and we must know what politics is supposed to produce. We must know wha...”
• “A fox and a wolf are both canine, both belong to the dog family. Now you take your choice. You going to choose a Norther...”
• “You and I, 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. You're nothing but Africans....”
• “Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, Amiri Baraka and other black male lea...”
• “I believe this is why Malcolm was killed. When Malcolm said, 'I no longer believe that by nature a person is born evil. ...”
• “I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being, neither white, black, brown nor red. When you are dealing w...”
• “Telegram sent to George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, during Rockwell's "Hate Bus" tour of the So...”
• “If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way ...”
• “Zionist Israel's occupation of Arab Palestine has forced the Arab world to waste billions of precious dollars on armamen...”
• “Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people ...”
• “Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differe...”
• “Variant: We want one thing: We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a hu...”
• “I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherho...”
• “I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism - a human being is exercisi...”
• “Malcolm X is a distinct shape in a very pivotal period of my life. I stand here now - Black, Lesbian, Feminist - an inhe...”
• “There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligen...”
• “They [America] don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa preaches and practices the same thing. I have more ...”
• “Black people are fed up with the dillydallying, pussyfooting, compromising approach that we've been using toward getting...”