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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 25

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I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

Thinking, White, Leader

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

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.

Devil, Muhammad, Honorable

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

Men, Thinking, White Man

All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.

Brother, Fighting, Feelings

Just like Pharaoh couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Moses, or Nebuchadnezzar or Belshazzar couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Daniel, the white man in America today will never understand the race problem or come anywhere near getting a solution to the race problem until he talks to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

Men, Race, White Man

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!

Men, Thinking, Mind

We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.

Thinking, Uniting, Firsts

"A Declaration of Independence" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 12, 1964.

The Messenger has seen God. He was with Allah and was given divine patience with the devil. He is willing to wait for Allah to deal with this devil. Well, sir, the rest of us Black Muslims have not seen God, we don't have this gift of divine patience with the devil. The younger Black Muslims want to see some action.

Waiting, Black, Devil

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.

Nigeria

Source: nyx.uky.edu

They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain.

Rights, Blood, Done

The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter. But he's teaching the black people to suffer peacefully, patiently, until the white man makes up his mind that you're a human being the same as he.

Uncles, Teaching, Men

We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

Brother, Attitude, White

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.391, Ballantine Books

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

Appreciation, Slavery, Prison

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.386, Ballantine Books

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.

Believe, White, Black

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

One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

Brother, Book, Forever

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

Religious, Thinking, Organization

Source: nyx.uky.edu

I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom, there are many whites who will fight on his side with him.

Real, Fighting, Thinking

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

Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of being anti-Semitic, simply because he teaches our people to go into business for ourselves and take over the economic leadership in our own community.

America, People, Community

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of teaching black supremacy when he tries to uplift the mentality, the social, mental and economic condition of the black people in America.

Uplifting, Teaching, White

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the school system is in the hands of the whites, you have a situation where the blacks are constantly begging the whites can they use this or can they use that. That's not any kind of equality of opportunity, nor does it lend toward one's dignity.

School, Opportunity, Hands

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin

Source: nyx.uky.edu

During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, "No federal statutes have been violated." And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words.

Kings, Jail, Government

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

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

Struggle, People, Evil

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

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

Lying, America, Young

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.460, Ballantine Books

The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is not going to happen. It's going to cause trouble.

Causes, Chance, Trouble

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