Top 25 Quotes by Malcolm X of 780 - Page 8

I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.

Islam

It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government.

Malcolm X

Thinking, Government, Hands

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

Malcolm X

Rights, Tree, Humans

"The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.

Malcolm X

Beautiful, Islamic, White

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done.

Malcolm X

Running, Country, Kings

"Ice Cube: Attitude". Book by Joel McIver (p. 177), 2002.

Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man. If the late President Kennedy could get together with Khrushchev and exchange some wheat, we certainly have more in common with each other than Kennedy and Khrushchev had with each other.

Malcolm X

Christian, Atheist, Men

"The Ballot or The Bullet". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman, (pp. 23-44), 1965.

If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate us, we'd see some action. Talk is cheap, if white people didn't want to have a South African situation ... there'd be none. If white people in America didn't want segregation, there'd be none ... it is the man who allows him to lynch who is never seen.

Malcolm X

Hate, Men, White

We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.

Malcolm X

Men, Boat, Hell

"The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.

Malcolm X

Believe, Men, Divine Guidance

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

If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.

Malcolm X

Country, Stressed, Consciousness

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

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Malcolm X

Dream, Eye, America

"The Ballot or the Bullet". Malcolm X's Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, teachingamericanhistory.org. April 3, 1964.

Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colours and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the home of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colours.

Malcolm X

Home, Past, Land

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

Respect me, or put me to death.

Malcolm X

Respect Me

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

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

Malcolm X

Rights, Earth, Born

"The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

You are either free or not free

Malcolm X

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

Malcolm X

Inspiring, Mean, Justice

Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.

Malcolm X

Men, America, Race

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.400, Ballantine Books

Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a man's skin happens to be wrong, then I say those people are justified to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice when the government can't give them justice.

Malcolm X

Mean, Men, Color

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

Malcolm X

Intelligent, Reality, Men

Letter written following his Hajj, 1964.

Who taught you to hate yourself?

Malcolm X

Hate, Taught, Hating Yourself

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

Malcolm X

Truth, Criminal Mind, Matter

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.372, Ballantine Books

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

Malcolm X

Hate, Roots, Racism

Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.

Malcolm X

Matter, No Matter What, Accepted

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.

Malcolm X

Religious, Political, Religion

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

Malcolm X

Country, Baby, Children

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

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