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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 16

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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching the black man, you're a human man.All you have to do is dignify yourself. You don't have to wait for any white man to recognize you. Recognize yourself. Love each other.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching the black man, you're a human man.All you have to do is dignify yourself. You don't have to wait for any white man to recognize you. Recognize yourself. Love each other. Practice harmony and brotherhood among your own kind.

Teaching, Men, White Man

I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.

Reality, Men, Color

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

I might add, the whites who came here only say 50 years ago as immigrants have come into this country, they have set up businesses. They've developed these businesses into an industry.

Country, Years, Add

You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

Hate, Hate You, Ends

Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

Cheating, Winning, Gambling

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.25, Ballantine Books

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

Religion Of Islam, Muhammad, Honorable

Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per - as a person has not committed any of the deeds that has produced the plight that the negro finds himself in, is he guiltless? The only way you can determine that is, take the negro child who's only four-years-old. Can he escape, though he's only four years old, can he escape the stigma of discrimination and segregation? He's only four-years-old.

Children, Years, White

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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

Mean, Men, Black

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.374, Ballantine Books

I don’t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.

Home, Ghana, Visitors

We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything.

Civil Rights, Separation, Segregation

"Malcolm X: The Last Speeches".

People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.

People, Revolution, Accepting

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

What Mr. Muhammad says is, they should take their Navy and their - Merchant Fleet and ship us back where they got us.And that's not deportation, that's - returning stolen property to its proper owner.Now, since the government doesn't want to do that, then they - and they have already proven that they can't bring about peaceful relations on an integrated basis in this country, give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.

Country, Government, Self

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

America, Cracks, Paradoxical

By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this creates within them an attitude that is different from the attitude of the white that you meet here in America, and it was in Mecca that I realized that white is actually an attitude more so than it's a color.

Attitude, Color, White

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

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.

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

Differences, Together, Able

"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.

You catch any white man off guard in here right now, you catch him off guard and ask him what he is, he doesn't say he's an American. He either tells you he's Irish, or he's Italian, or he's German, if you catch him off guard and he doesn't know what you're up to. And even though he was born here, he'll tell you he's Italian. Well, if he's Italian, you and I are African even though we were born here.

Italian, Men, White Man

Malcolm X (1992). “By Any Means Necessary”, Pathfinder Press (NY)

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

Men, Knives, Progress

He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black.

White, Black, May

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.37, Ballantine Books

The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.

Country, Heart, Dark

When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.

Men, White Man, Doomed

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

I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need.

Block, Thinking, America

Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.

Real, Taken, Names

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

Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent.

Spiritual, Philosophical, Mean

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