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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 10

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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.

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.

Believe, Color, Racism

The common enemy is the white man.

Men, White Man, Enemy

I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds and his conscious behavior. And it teaches me to be for the rights of all human beings, but especially the Afro-American human being, because my religion is a natural religion, and the first law of nature is self-preservation.

Men, Rights, Self

If this government can send 20 billion dollars to Latin America to some peasants who have never fought for this country or worked for this country or have - or - and is sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Africa and Asia to try and buy friendship of people who will never be friendly toward them, then they should be even more quick to spend some - whatever amount of money is necessary to get inside of their house straight, before it's too late.

Country, Latin, America

They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.

Fighting, Men, White Man

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.211, Ballantine Books

Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.

Color, Judging, Complexion

Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

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.

Religious, Freedom, Believe

Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like its hate, but it's the truth

Hate, Might, Sound

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Inspiring, Memories, Men

Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

Sorry, Mistake, Math

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.39, Ballantine Books

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.

People, Rewards, Walks

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.'

Intelligent, Daddy, Doe

Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who accepted it and he said, "Yes." So I asked him then what was it about it that he considered to be so danger, and he, dangerous, and he pointed out that it was the cohesiveness that it produced among the inmates. They stuck together.

New York, Together, Inmates

Source: nyx.uky.edu

Stumbling is not falling.

Fall, Design, Challenges

Revolutions are never peaceful.

Peaceful, Revolution

Malcolm X, Benjamin Karim (1971). “The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches”, p.137, Arcade Publishing

Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.

War, Realizing

When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with "hate". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of "hatred"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race.

Hate, Book, Men

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.388, Ballantine Books

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

Practice, America, Segregation

Malcolm X (1992). “Malcolm X Speaks Out”, Andrews McMeel Pub

I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting 'hallelujah's Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back — and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!

Grateful, Men, Thinking

"The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

Book, Men, Asking Questions

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.

Law, Tyrants, Use

You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.

Hate, Men, America

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

Freedom, Mean, Men

Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us today as Black Leaders representing the welfare of Black people. We won't follow any leader today who comes on the basis of political party. Both parties (Democrat and Republican) are controlled by the same people who have abused our rights, and who have deceived us with false promises every time an election rolls around.

Party, Rights, Deceived Us

You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary.

White, Community, Want

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