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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 30

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The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

Jobs, Opportunity, Two

Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as it now stands will be forced to put, exercise more violent action to deprive the negro of his mature political action.

Exercise, Political, Benefits

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

I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion.

New York, Trying, Green

Source: nyx.uky.edu

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

What It Means To Be An American, Sitting, Diners

"Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book by Malcolm X edited by George Breitman, 1965.

There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lin'" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters.

House, Ems, Fields

If I did see a white man who was willing to go to jail or throw himself in front of a car in behalf of the so-called "negro cause," the test that I'd put to him, I'd ask him, "Do you think negro, when Negroes are being attacked they should defend themselves even at the risk of having to kill the one who's attacking them?" If that white man told me, "Yes," I'd shake his hand.

Men, Thinking, White Man

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

When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any organization as long as it didn't make us compromise our religious principles.

Religious, Organization, Long

Source: nyx.uky.edu

I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or passively. It's only when they are so-called "fighting for the rights of Negroes" that they nonviolently, passively, and lovingly, you know, approach the situation.

Fighting, Rights, White

Source: nyx.uky.edu

I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.

Believe, Philosophical, Migration

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

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

Men, Race, White Man

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

God is more lasting than the white man.

Men, White Man, White

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

America, People, Hemisphere

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

The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in the divinity of Elijah Muhammad. We believed in him. We actually believed that God, in Detroit by the way, that God had taught him and all of that. I always believed that he believed in himself. And I was shocked when I found out that he himself didn't believe it.

Believe, Black, Movement

It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and criminal exploitation of the American negro from the color of the skin of the person who is the oppressor or the exploiter.

Color, Skins, Criminals

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

Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.

Way, Doom, Doomed

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

If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

Germany, Six, Christianity

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.394, Ballantine Books

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

Country, Race, White

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

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

Country, Spiritual, Environmental

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.401, Ballantine Books

I think it's possible for me to approach the whole problem with a broader scope.When you look at something through an, an organizational eye, whether it's a, a religious organization, political organization, or a civic organization, if you look at it only through the eye of that organization, you see what the organization wants you to see. But you lose your ability to be objective.

Religious, Eye, Thinking

Source: nyx.uky.edu

My alma mater was books, a good library.

Book, Reading, Library

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

Two, People, Black

Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

Kings, Luther, Method

Source: nyx.uky.edu

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

Kings, May, Arguing

Source: nyx.uky.edu

By any means necessary.

Mean

Speech at rally of Organization of Afro-American Unity, NewYork, N.Y., 28 June 1964

Let's cool it, brothers.

Brother, Dying, Last Words

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.438, Ballantine Books

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