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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 27

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I'm with an old family was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

White, Massachusetts, Maids

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

School, Army, Rocks

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]

Wife, Use, Energy

The same as in a German neighborhood, the stores are run by Germans, and in a Chinese neighborhood they're run by Chinese. In the negro neighborhood the businesses should be owned and operated by Negroes and, thereby, they would be creating employment for Negroes.

Running, Creating, Chinese

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

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

Kings, Men, America

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

Egypt, Practice, People

Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.

United States, May, Afros

Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

Men, White Man, Black

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.252, Ballantine Books

In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.

Thinking, Elephants, America

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

Justice, Diversity, Asking

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.374, Ballantine Books

I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.

Believe, Innocent, Undone

Malcolm X, Bruce Perry (1989). “Malcolm X: the last speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

Men, Graves, Integration

"Brown University student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech". www.nj.com. February 6, 2012.

The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house slave said, well one of these days all of us will live in the plantation, they said, uh huh. They went along with him. But if you came up to them and said, let's go, they would be gone just like that.And in, in America you have the same situation.You have the vast masses who are still slaves.

Thinking, America, House

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

White, Black, Unity

Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave and the field slave. The house slave was the one who believed in the master, who had confidence in the master and usually was very friendly with the master. And usually he was also used by the master to try and keep the other slaves pacified.

Two, House, Trying

I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.

Fall, Teaching, Intelligent

I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God.

Believe, Religion Of Islam, Teach

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

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

Two, Done, Separation

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and the position of the Afro- American or negro in American history. [He] has done a remarkable job in fighting for rights of black people in this country. On the other hand, he probably hasn't done as much as he could or as much as he should because he is the most independent negro politician in this country.

Country, Jobs, Independent

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

We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We don't feel that in 1964, living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom, and supposedly the leader of the free world, we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a President from Texas in Washington, D.C., to make up their minds that our people are due now some degree of civil rights. No, we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it.

Country, Mean, Thinking

Malcolm X (1992). “By Any Means Necessary”, Pathfinder Press (NY)

All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

Moving, Past, Rights

Source: nyx.uky.edu

Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way the black people caught up in this society can be saved is not to integrate into this corrupt society, but to separate from it, to a land of our own, where we can reform ourselves, lift up our moral standards and try to be godly.

Godly, Land, People

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.282, Ballantine Books

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

Politician, Selected

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

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.

Jobs, White, Political

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

America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted resident colonialist, sipping tea with his delicate lady in the non-white colonies being systematically robbed of every valuable resource. Britain's superfluous royalty and nobility now exist by charging tourists to inspect the once baronial castles, and by selling memoirs, perfumes, autographs, titles, and even themselves.

White, America, Forever

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.292, Ballantine Books

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