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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 24

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When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.

When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.

Powerful, Black, Want

After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that enabled black people to go forward. It was not the initiative internally that the Negro put forth in America, nor was it a change of moral heart on the part of Uncle Sam it was world pressure.

Uncles, Heart, America

Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

Support, Leader, Structure

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

It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the power of the dollar.

Country, Seductive, Dollars

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

School, Ghetto, Cities

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.125, Ballantine Books

What does a black man look like begging for a cup of coffee in a white restaurant, and doesn't have a job to back up his - to pay for it when, when - when he does get the coffee? It's putting the cart before the horse.

Horse, Jobs, Coffee

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

Men, Thinking, Color

Source: nyx.uky.edu

Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.

Harlem, Walks, Walkers

Interview with Robert Penn Warren, slidelegend.com. June 2, 1964..

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

Accepting, Hardest, Humans

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.173, Ballantine Books

That's not our problem, that's America's problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this earth, they could see that it - we are closer toward getting a separate territory in this country than the integrationists are toward getting integration.

Country, Uncles, Average

While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim.

Evil, Vices, Prison

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

The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat that we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige, and concentrate our united efforts toward solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America.

Hurt, Thinking, Differences

"Malcolm X Speaks". Book by George Breitman, p. 21, 1965.

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

Country, America, Revolution

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

Country, Way, Prison

Source: nyx.uky.edu

It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans.

Country, Eggs, Two

Source: nyx.uky.edu

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.

White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts are designed to eliminate this, that or, or the next thing but, yet, it is never eliminated is in no way impressive to me.

White, Jail, People

Source: nyx.uky.edu

At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.

Country, Islam, Connections

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

When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church. Join that church. If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization, civic, religious, fraternal, political, or otherwise that's based on lifting the black man up and making him master of his own community.

Religious, Philosophy, Past

"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 economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the community in which we live, which means that we won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get jobs.

Jobs, Philosophy, Mean

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

Hate, Men, White Man

In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration, as they've been making an effort to do in this country for the past years, is also just as impractical.

Country, Past, Years

Source: nyx.uky.edu

Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated.

Mean, Fighting, Rights

[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.

Color, Islam, Skins

Source: nyx.uky.edu

How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims.

Son, Differences, Leader

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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