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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 7

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When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

Believe, Knives, Two

The Chinese in this country aren't asking for integration.

Country, Chinese, Asking

Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?

Hate, Hair, Skins

Speech, pitchfork.com. May 22, 1962.

I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language.

Brother, Sleep, Night

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.395, Ballantine Books

No religion will ever make me forget the condition of our people in this country...No God, no religion, no nothing will make me forget it until it stops, until it's elimitnated. I want to make that point clear.

Country, People, Want

God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

Men, White Man, People

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

Rights, Government, People

"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.

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

People

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

Men, Enemy, Faces

Source: nyx.uky.edu

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

Criminals, Crime, Disgrace

American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.

Past, Rights, Lynching

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Freedom, Believe, Men

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

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

Attitude, Race, White

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.347, Ballantine Books

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

Struggle, Culture, Weapons

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

Can you accuse me, if a man is putting a rope around my neck, of being violent, when I violently struggle against this lyncher to try and keep him from putting a rope around my innocent neck? Why, you'd be insane to cause me - to call me violent.

Struggle, Men, Insane

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

New York, Black Youth, White

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.368, Ballantine Books

In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being

Wisdom, Islamic, Cities

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

Rocks, Land, America

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

The price of freedom is death.

Price Of Freedom

For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudo-religious philosophy that he preaches.... 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.

Religious, Strong, Philosophy

I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind.

Nice, People, Doe

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.37, Ballantine Books

When I was in Mecca I noticed that their, they had no color problem. That they had people there whose eyes were blue and people there whose eyes were black, people whose skin was white, people whose skin was black, people whose hair was blond, people whose hair was black, from the whitest white person to the blackest black person.

Eye, Hair, Blue

Source: nyx.uky.edu

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Freedom, Fighting, Intelligent

Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.

Giving

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.327, Ballantine Books

At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the rats and the cockroaches and drowns himself with alcohol and anesthetizes himself with dope, to try and forget where and what he is. That Negro has given up all hope. He's the hardest one for us to reach, because he's the deepest in the mud. But when you get him, you've got the best kind of Muslim. I look upon myself as a prime example of this category - as graphic an example as you could find of the salvation of the black man.

Ghetto, Night, Dope

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