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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 23

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The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

Men, Land, America

We would do the same thing that America did when the Jap[an] - when, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. America defended itself. They said praise the Lord, but they passed the ammunition.

America, Pearls, Praise

Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!

Believe, Enemy, Protect

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables him to really take a firm, uncompromising, militant stand on problems that confront our people.

Men, White Man, People

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

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

Men, White Man, Devil

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

Two, Long, Afros

Source: nyx.uky.edu

Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

Christian, Atheist, Buddhist

"The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

Liberty, Bullets, Ballots

Malcolm X (1992). “Malcolm X Speaks Out”, Andrews McMeel Pub

The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is sweeping Asia, is sweeping Africa, is rearing its head in Latin America. The Cuban Revolution - that's a revolution. They overturned the system. Revolution is in Asia, revolution is in Africa, and the white man is screaming because he sees revolution in Latin America. How do you think he'll react to you when you learn what a real revolution is?

Real, Latin, Men

The white press itself created civil right leaders.

White, Leader, Presses

Source: nyx.uky.edu

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.

Thinking, Should, Reserves

Source: nyx.uky.edu

I know that I will not die until my time comes.

My Time, Knows, Dies

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

Country, War, Race

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

I think, again, that that does the whole problem a, a disservice. It's not a case of our wanting to mix socially with whites. And when you - and the whites are right in the South when they say that getting a cup of coffee in a restaurant is not going to solve - is all right.

Coffee, Thinking, Doe

Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black man even started in that direction, which is a mature step and it's the only way to really solve this problem and to prove that he is the intellectual equal of others, why, the racists and the segregationists would fight that harder than they're fighting the present efforts to integrate.

Country, Fighting, Men

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

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

Teaching, Men, White Man

Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.

Believe, Religion Of Islam, Islam

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

Powerful, Way, Revolution

"Message to Grassroots" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

It gives [a man] the incentive to develop his dormant potential so that when he becomes a part of the brotherhood of Islam, and is identified collectively in the brotherhood of Islam with the brothers in Islam, at the same time this also gives him the, it has the psychological effect of giving him the incentive as an individual to develop all of his dormant potential to its fullest extent.

Brother, Men, Giving

Source: nyx.uky.edu

I have gone through the process of re-evaluating, giving a personal re-evaluation to everything that I ever believed and that I did believe while I was a, a member and a minister.

Believe, Giving, Gone

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

White is an attitude.

Attitude, White

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

The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world.

Thinking, White, World

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.353, Ballantine Books

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

Thinking, Class, White

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

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

Men, White Man, People

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.185, Ballantine Books

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

Light, Roots, Tree

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