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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 12

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I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.

I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.

Kings, Black, United States

I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose.

Men, Trying, Groups

Source: nyx.uky.edu

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

Blessed, Cities, Mecca

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.347, Ballantine Books

The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.

Cures, Junkie, Conditions

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.267, Ballantine Books

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.

America, People, Black

The war of Armageddon has already started... God is using his many weapons. He is sending hurricanes so fast that [the blue-eyed devils] can't name them. He is drowning them in floods and causing their cars to crash and their airplanes cannot stay up in the sky. Their boats are sinking because Allah controls all things and he is using all methods to begin to wipe the devils off the planet, [and] the enemy is dying of diseases that have never been so deadly.

War, Airplane, Blue

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.

Spiritual, Wall, College

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.392, Ballantine Books

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

Years, Racism, Mecca

Malcolm X's letter written following his Hajj, 1964.

We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are within our rights to protect themselves by whatever means necessary.

Mean, Rights, Government

I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach it as an american or a european or an African or an Asian, but as a human being. If we look upon it as different types, immediately we begin to think in terms of extremism being good for one and bad for another, or bad for one and good for another. But if we look upon it, if we look upon ourselves as human beings, I doubt that anyone will deny that extremism in defense of liberty, the liberty of any human being, is no vice.

Thinking, Doubt, Liberty

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. 44), 2013.

I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people.

Men, Thinking, Years

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

Men, Giving, Ballots

"The Ballot or the Bullet". Malcolm X's Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, teachingamericanhistory.org. April 3, 1964.

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right. And all we're asking for is an opportunity to do something for ourselves, rather than to sit around as a beggar, begging for jobs and begging for education from - for someone else for the rest of our lives.

Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

Heartbreak, Betrayal, Betrayed

Education is our passport to the future.

Education, First Day Of School, Educator

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

I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.

Religious, Eye, Feet

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

I'm inclined to believe that most Negro leaders, professional Negroes are professional Negroes. Being a Negro is their professional, and being a profe - a leader is their profession. And usually they say exactly what the white man wants - wants to hear them say.

Believe, Men, White Man

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

Business, Successful, Knows

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.30, Ballantine Books

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

Country, Egypt, Black

No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

Men, White Man, Talking

"Brown University student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech". www.nj.com. February 6, 2012.

Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.

Thinking, Groups, Problem

Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to sit around and wait for five years to get this problem solved, much less a hundred years.

Men, Thinking, White Man

We are about to have a racial explosion.

Explosions

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Why can't the black man have a God? What's so wrong when a black man says his God will protect him form his white foe? If Jehovah can slay Philistines for the Jews, why can't Allah slay crackers for the so-called Negro?

Men, White, Black

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

Believe, Rights, Judging

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

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