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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 13

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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

Men, Example, Facts

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.268, Ballantine Books

Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.

Attitude, Race, Hypocritical

Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

Sister, Brother, Believe

"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.

Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary

Mean, Justice, Might

Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition and respect as a human being.

Differences, Long, Needs

Source: nyx.uky.edu

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody.

Japan, People, United States

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

These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors.

Mother, Father, Kids

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.

Running, Mean, Insane

"The Ballot or The Bullet". Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, April 3, 1964.

We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.

Country, Jobs, Children

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

We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.

Fighting, Rights, Facts

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

Inspiring, Country, Brotherhood

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.433, Ballantine Books

Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."

Country, Attitude, Teaching

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

White, People, Islam

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.369, Ballantine Books

White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

White, People, Islam

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

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

Men, Islam, Humans

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

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

You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear top hats. They're called Doctor, they're called - Reverend, but they're still - they play the same role today that Uncle Tom played on the plantation.

Uncles, Doctors, Class

Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick.

Sick, Groups, Politics

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.362, Ballantine Books

I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

Mistake, Book, Teaching

"The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they had some type of identity, culture, civilization before they were brought here.

Civilization, People, Identity

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

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

Believe, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

"Varieties of black experience at Harvard: an anthology" by Werner Sollors, Thomas A. Underwood, Caldwell Titcomb, (p. 133), 1986.

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.

Running, Want, Neighborhood

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

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

Freedom, Believe, Men

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

I am not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of the 22 million black victims of the Democrats, and one of the 22 million black victims of the Republicans, and one of the 22 million black victims of Americanism... You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocracy... If you go to jail, so what? If you're black, you were born in jail. 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.

Talking, Jail, Long

"The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

The white devil's time is up.

White, Devil

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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