Malcolm X Quotes

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like.

America just reaped what it had been sowing.

Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't.

Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself.

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.

My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.

We believe in one God. We believe Muhammad is the Apostle of God.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

No black person married to a white person can speak for me!

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison].

To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical.

The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is not going to happen. It's going to cause trouble.

At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me.

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.

The only minority in America that's asking for integration is the so-called Negro, primarily because he is inferior, not inherently inferior, but he's economically, socially, politically inferior.

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.

Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

The white press itself created civil right leaders.

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.

Never ask a woman about other men.Either she'll tell you a lie, and you still won't know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place.

He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.

All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, fromBirth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, in fact wants this too.

Even though I seem not human, a mute shelfof glucose, bottled blood, machineryto swell the lung and pump the heart—even so, do not put out my life. Let me still glow.

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?