Malcolm X Quotes

Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.

That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die.

[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!

We would do the same thing that America did when the Jap[an] - when, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. America defended itself. They said praise the Lord, but they passed the ammunition.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.

There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca].

I know that I will not die until my time comes.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

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.

Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.

I have gone through the process of re-evaluating, giving a personal re-evaluation to everything that I ever believed and that I did believe while I was a, a member and a minister.

White is an attitude.

The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world.

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

History is not hatred.

I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom, there are many whites who will fight on his side with him.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours.

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.

Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek.

Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

By any means necessary.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago.

When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.