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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 20

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There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed.

There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed.

Country, White, People

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

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

Men, Devil, Gutters

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes.

Attitude, Heart, Order

Source: nyx.uky.edu

Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.

Sitting, Pharaohs, Today

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when one accepts the religion of Islam, he's known as a Muslim.

Country, Religion Of Islam, People

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

Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.

Mean, White, Justice

[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy.

People, Shy, Half

It takes two to tango; when I go, you go.

Two, Tango

Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael (1968). “Luther King, Malcolm X, Brown, Carmichael, textos sobre el poder negro”

I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words

Race, Blue, Color

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

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

Trying, Ballots, Ifs

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

Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it.

Dog, Men, Jail

They came to this country they, they were Hungarians, they were Communists from a Communist country. And right now those Hungarian freedom fighters can get jobs that student sit-ins can't get. They can go and sleep and live in hotels that Martin Luther King himself can't live in.They are recognized and respected because they are fighters, not because they are sit-iners or freedom.

Country, Kings, Jobs

If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.

Men, Black, Recognition

Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.

Car, Dining, Massachusetts

We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go

Teach, Knows

Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man, has found it impossible to bring about integration, other than toke on a ta - other than on a token basis, and which proves that the, the two of us, the ex-slave and the master, can't live in the same house as equals.

Men, Two, White

After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that the separation [ from the Black Muslim movement] became psychological as well as physical, so that I could look at it more objectively and - and separate that which was good from that which was bad.

Thinking, Black, Middle East

Source: nyx.uky.edu

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.

Thinking, Begging

Only the mistakes were mine.

Mistake, Mines

Once the white man let the Negro get an education, the Negro began to want what the white man has. But he let Negroes get an education and now they are demanding integration; they want to have exactly what he has. And the white man is not going to give it to them!

Men, White Man, Giving

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so big that their own organization as such, by itself, can never come to a, can never come up with a solution.

Average, Organization, Problem

Source: nyx.uky.edu

Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of rights that you can think of, when it comes to defending himself, black people - we should have the right to defend ourselves also.

Men, Thinking, Rights

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.

Ocean, Ships, Bottom

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

Men, People, Kind

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical.

Effort, Hypocritical, Form

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