Malcolm X Quotes And Sayings

There Is No More Apartheid In South Africa Than In The United States.

History Proves That The White Man Is A Devil.

You Can't Hate The Roots Of A Tree And Not Hate The Tree. You Can't Hate Africa And Not Hate Yourself.

My Black Brothers And Sisters - Of All Religious Beliefs, Or Of No Religious Beliefs - We All Have In Common The Greatest Binding Tie We Could Have. We Are All Black People!

When We See That Our Problem Is So Complicated And So All-encompassing In Its Intent And Content, Then We Realize That It Is No Longer A Negro Problem, Confined Only To The American Negro; That It Is No Longer An American Problem, Confined Only To America, But It Is A Problem For Humanity.

What I Want To Know Is How The White Man, With The Blood Of Black People Dripping Off His Fingers, Can Have The Audacity To Be Asking Black People, 'Do They Hate Him?' That Takes A Lot Of Nerve.

I Have More Respect For A Man Who Lets Me Know Where He Stands, Even If He's Wrong. Than The One Who Comes Up Like An Angel And Is Nothing But A Devil.

You Have To Realize That Up Until About 1959, Africa Was Dominated By The Colonial Powers. And By The Colonial Powers Of Europe Having Complete Control Over Africa, They Projected Africa Always In A Negative Light - Jungles, Savages, Cannibals, Nothing Civilized.

We Muslims Believe That The White Race, Which Is Guilty Of Having Oppressed And Exploited And Enslaved Our People Here In America, Should And Will Be The Victims Of God's Divine Wrath.

Good Education, Housing And Jobs Are Imperatives For The Negroes, And I Shall Support Them In Their Fight To Win These Objectives, But I Shall Tell The Negroes That While These Are Necessary, They Cannot Solve The Main Negro Problem.

History Is Not Hatred.

My Father Didn't Know His Last Name. My Father Got His Last Name From His Grandfather, And His Grandfather Got It From His Grandfather Who Got It From The Slavemaster.

America In Its Entirety Is Segregationist And Is Racist. It's More Camouflaged In The North, But It's The Same Thing.

Being An Old Farm Boy Myself, Chickens Coming Home To Roost Never Did Make Me Sad; They've Always Made Me Glad.

The Black Man In Africa Had Mastered The Arts And Sciences. He Knew The Course Of The Stars In The Universe Before The Man Up In Europe Knew That The Earth Wasn't Flat.

When Ghetto Living Seems Normal, You Have No Shame, No Privacy.

You Show Me A Capitalist, And I'll Show You A Bloodsucker.

Nobody Can Give You Freedom. Nobody Can Give You Equality Or Justice Or Anything. If You're A Man, You Take It.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Says That We Should Be Separate, All Right, But In This Separate State Or Separate Existence, The Black Man Should Be Given The Opportunity And The Incentive To Do For Himself What The White Man Has Done For Himself.

If, If A White Man Puts His Arm Around Me Voluntarily, That's Brotherhood. But If You - If You Hold A Gun On Him And Make Him Embrace Me And Pretend To Be Friendly Or Brotherly Toward Me, Then That's Not Brotherhood, That's Hypocrisy.

I Believe In A Religion That Believes In Freedom. Any Time I Have To Accept A Religion That Won't Let Me Fight A Battle For My People, I Say To Hell With That Religion.

If You Have A Dog, I Must Have A Dog. If You Have A Rifle, I Must Have A Rifle. If You Have A Club, I Must Have A Club. This Is Equality.

No, We Are Not Anti-white. But We Don't Have Time For The White Man. The White Man Is On Top Already, The White Man Is The Boss Already... He Has First-class Citizenship Already. So You Are Wasting Your Time Talking To The White Man. We Are Working On Our Own People.

America Needs To Understand Islam, Because This Is The One Religion That Erases From Its Society The Race Problem. Throughout My Travels In The Muslim World, I Have Met, Talked To, Even Eaten With People Who In America Would Have Been Considered 'White,' But The 'White' Attitude Had Been Removed From Their Minds By The Religion Of Islam.

I Just Don't Believe That When People Are Being Unjustly Oppressed That They Should Let Someone Else Set Rules For Them By Which They Can Come Out From Under That Oppression.

The True Islam Has Shown Me That A Blanket Indictment Of All White People Is As Wrong As When Whites Make Blanket Indictments Against Blacks.

In The Past, The Greatest Weapon The White Man Has Had Has Been His Ability To Divide And Conquer. If I Take My Hand And Slap You, You Don't Even Feel It. It Might Sting You Because These Digits Are Separated. But All I Have To Do To Put You Back In Your Place Is Bring Those Digits Together.

The White Man Made The Mistake Of Letting Me Read His History Books. He Made The Mistake Of Teaching Me That Patrick Henry Was A Patriot And George Washington - Wasn't Nothing Non-violent About Old Pat Or George Washington.

I'm For Truth, No Matter Who Tells It. I'm For Justice, No Matter Who It's For Or Against.

Nobody Should Teach The Black Man In America To Turn The Other Cheek, Unless Someone Is Teaching The White Man In America To Turn The Other Cheek.

America Is The First Country... That Can Actually Have A Bloodless Revolution.

There Is Nothing In Our Book, The Koran, That Teaches Us To Suffer Peacefully. Our Religion Teaches Us To Be Intelligent.

White America Is In The Minority.

In The Muslim World, I Had Seen That Men With White Complexions Were More Genuinely Brotherly Than Anyone Else Had Ever Been. That... Was The Start Of A Radical Alteration In My Whole Outlook About 'White Men.'

We Who Follow The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Feel That When You Try And Pass Integration Laws Here In America, Forcing White People To Pretend That They Are Accepting Black People, What You Are Doing Is Making White People Act In A Hypocritical Way.

Nonviolence Is Fine As Long As It Works.

Not One Black Man Is Prominent In Brazil. The Negroes There Are Still At The Bottom.

The Goal Of Dr. Martin Luther King Is To Give Negroes A Chance To Sit In A Segregated Restaurant Beside The Same White Man Who Had Brutalized Them For 400 Years.

I Believe In The Brotherhood Of All Men, But I Don't Believe In Wasting Brotherhood On Anyone Who Doesn't Want To Practice It With Me. Brotherhood Is A Two-way Street.

Do You Know What Integration Really Means? It Means Intermarriage. That's The Real Point Behind It. You Can't Have It Without Intermarriage. And That Would Result In Disintegration Of Both Races.

The White Man, In His Press, Is Going To Identify Me With 'Hate.'

The Negro Revolution Is Controlled By Foxy White Liberals, By The Government Itself. But The Black Revolution Is Controlled Only By God.

The White Man Pays Reverend Martin Luther King So That Martin Luther King Can Keep The Negro Defenseless.

In The Bible, God Offered The Pharaoh Freedom If He Would Just Let The Oppressed People Free To Go To The Land Of Milk And Honey. But The Pharaoh Disobeyed, And He Was Destroyed.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Teaches Us That God, Now, Is About To Establish A Kingdom On This Earth, Based Upon Brotherhood And Peace. And The White Man Is Against Brotherhood, And The White Man Is Against Peace.

All I Held Against Jews Was That So Many Jews Actually Were Hypocrites In Their Claim To Be Friends Of The American Black Man.