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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 21

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Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times.

Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times.

Brother, Men, Three

The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares for the farmers' needs. There is a Department of Health, Education and Welfare. There is a Department of the Interior - in which the Indians are included. Is the farmer, the doctor, the Indian, the greatest problem in America today? No - it is the black man! There ought to be a Pentagon-sized Washington department dealing with every segment of the black man's problems.

Men, America, Doctors

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

Organization, Two, Twenties

Source: nyx.uky.edu

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, Self, People

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

Eating, My Family, Poor

That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting these so-called middle-class values, standards, it's not that they are taking something from the white man, but they are probably identifying again with the level or standard that these same whites have gotten from them back during that period.

Men, White Man, Class

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

I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he's a human being, then they will realize that he is just as capable and has the right to do anything that any other human being on this earth has a right to do to defend himself.

Looks, Earth, Realizing

Source: nyx.uky.edu

In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will enable the black people in the black community to see the fruits that they should be receiving from the politicians who are over them and, thereby, they are then able to determine whether or not the politician is really fulfilling his function.

People, Community, Political

Source: nyx.uky.edu

I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

Atheist, Believe, Prison

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

When you have to pass a law to make a man let me have a house, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me go to school, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me walk down the street, you have to enforce that law and you'd have to be living actually in a police state. It would take a police state in this country.

Country, School, Men

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

I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.

Fighting, Men, People

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

We believe in one God. We believe Muhammad is the Apostle of God.

Believe, Muhammad, Apostles

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned.

Mean, Accomplishment, Intellectual

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

I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.

Men, Trying, Blind

Malcolm X (1992). “February 1965: the final speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet.

Blue, Europe, Long

"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.

Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't.

Leader, Suffering, Inferiority

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

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

Used

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.361, Ballantine Books

Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.

Men, White Man, Organization

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

Country, White, Black

When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.

Believe

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

Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

Men, Self, White Man

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.245, Ballantine Books

Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek.

Jail, Be Kind, Patient

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

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

Education, Children, Teaching

The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death.

Powerful, Tired, Liberty

Source: historynewsnetwork.org

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

Children, Men, White Man

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

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