Malcolm X Quotes

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  • I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That if you go outside of New York City, Dr. [Martin Luther] King is known to 90 percent of the Negroes in the United States and is respected and, and is identified more or less with him, at least as a hero of one kind or another. That the Black Muslim, outside of one or two communities like New York, are unknown.

    New York   Kings   Hero  
    Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.
  • The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

  • We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

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

    Two   Long   Afros  
    Source: nyx.uky.edu
  • You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

    Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.
  • I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he's a human being, then they will realize that he is just as capable and has the right to do anything that any other human being on this earth has a right to do to defend himself.

    Looks   Earth   Realizing  
    Source: nyx.uky.edu
  • When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

  • America just reaped what it had been sowing.

    America   Sowing  
    Source: teachingamericanhistory.org
  • Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

    Men   Self   White Man  
    Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.245, Ballantine Books
  • Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

    Two   Done   Separation  
  • I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white public uses its press to magnify the fact that there are the lives of white hostages at stake, they don't say "hostages," every paper says "white hostages." They give me the impression that they attach more importance to a white hostage and a white death, than they do the death of a human being, despite the color of his skin.

    Thinking   White   Color  
    Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 174), 2013.
  • Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned.

    Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.
  • 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.

    Ghetto   Men   Black  
  • Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that no one would kill you quicker than Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do.

    Brother   Hero   Numbers  
    Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.324, Ballantine Books
  • Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.

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

    Source: teachingamericanhistory.org
  • [Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been.

    Country   War   Enemy  
    Source: nyx.uky.edu
  • Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.

    Attitude   Men   Ideas  
  • 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.

    Dog   Clubs   Rifles  
    Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr
  • Respect me, or put me to death.

    Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr
  • Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

  • You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself. The black brother is so brainwashed that he may reject the truth when he first hears it. You have to drop a little bit on him at a time, and wait a while to let that sink in before advancing to the next step

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

    Men   White Man   People  
    Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.185, Ballantine Books
  • I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

    Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.
  • 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

    Two   America   Twenties  
    "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.
  • By any means necessary.

    Mean  
    Speech at rally of Organization of Afro-American Unity, NewYork, N.Y., 28 June 1964
  • Uncle Sam is forcing integration only because he's trying to impress the people of - abroad that he's morally qualified to be the leader of the world.

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

    Thinking   Class   White  
    Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.
  • The price of freedom is death.

  • There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

    "Message to the Grass Roots" (speech), Detroit, Mich., 10 Nov. 1963
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    Malcolm X

    • Born: May 19, 1925
    • Died: February 21, 1965
    • Occupation: Human rights activist