Malcolm X Quotes

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.

Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.

You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

Growing is the result of learning.

The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.

These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors.

We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

The white devil's time is up.

The common enemy is the white man.

Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually

The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

You are either free or not free

Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

It takes two to tango; when I go, you go.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.

We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go

When you are equal with another person, the problem of integration doesn't even arise.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims.

It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.

I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.

Let's cool it, brothers.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.

The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.

My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds.

Some things are better done than said.

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.

I don't have any hate. I've got some sense. I'm not going to let anybody who hates me tell me to love him. I'm not that way-out.

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom.