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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 31

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Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself.

Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself.

Kings, Taken, Luther

I don't know - too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his God-given rights and within - and he was also within his natural right, because first law of nature is self-preservation.

Rights, Self, Law

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

Kings, America, Luther

Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people.

Running, Men, Odds

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.

Men, White Man, Tomorrow

Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective self improvement in, whereas our own, wherein our own people are concerned.

Country, Real, Race

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

Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better." -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X

Dirty, Glasses, Water

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the way to solve this problem is for the white man to give us some territory of our own. And then our people - we have technical know-how, we have agricultural know-how. We have been working for the white man in his business. In every phase of his government we work.

Men, White Man, People

America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like.

White, America, People

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Whoever is standing up telling the white man that his position is unjust and that the black people should not have to wait for any Supreme Court, Congress or Senate to legislate, or even the president to issue any kind of - of a proclamation to better the condition of our people, if a N - if he - if a, if a Negro leader is standing up, making that point clear, then he's all right with us.

Men, White Man, Issues

America just reaped what it had been sowing.

America, Sowing

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for four hundred years, by lulling them to sleep and making them forget what those whites have done to them, but the masses of black people today don't go for what Martin Luther King is putting down.

Kings, Sleep, Years

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild.

Running, Men, White Man

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job

Jobs, Men, White Man

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.240, Ballantine Books

God is about to eliminate the white man from this earth.

Men, White Man, White

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day.

Religious, Uncles, Kings

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

Rocks, Land, Diversity

My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.

Faith In God, Not Afraid

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

Kings, Men, White Man

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

Mean, Politician, Function

Source: nyx.uky.edu

I think that the black people in this country have the reached the point where they should reserve the right to do whatever is necessary to see that they exercise complete control over the politicians in the politician, in the politics of their own community by whatever means necessary.

Country, Mean, Exercise

Source: nyx.uky.edu

Instead of the Negro leaders having the black man begging for a chance to - to dine in white restaurants, the Negro leader should be showing the black man how to do something to strengthen his own economy.

Men, White, Dine In

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Motivational, Book, Reading

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

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.

Country, Men, Knives

"American Liberals and the Racism Treadmill" by Coleman Hughes, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 16, 2018.

Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.

Men, White Man, Years

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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