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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 9

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What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're

What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist... You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.

Powerful, Men, Differences

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Truth, Patriotism, Doe

Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

Political, Way, Action

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

Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.

Jobs, Rely Upon, Enemy

"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.

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

Art, Stars, Men

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

Believe, Thorough Understanding, People

[Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been.

Country, War, Enemy

Source: nyx.uky.edu

Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits.

Cat, Biscuits, Kitten

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Success, Failure, Deeds

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.391, Ballantine Books

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

Pride, Men, Race

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

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

Freedom, Needs, Slavery

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

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

America, Black, Black Women

Malcolm X's speech in Los Angeles, amara.org. May 5, 1962.

The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, it might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.

Past, Hands, People

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

Men, White Man, Devil

"The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

Gun, Hens, Too Much

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.234, Ballantine Books

You don't integrate with a sinking ship.

Ships, Integrating, Sinking

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of his own, a God of his own, a language of his own. Most of all he must have love and devotion for his own kind.

Men, Order, Land

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

Racism, Colonialism, Negative

They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits!

Country, Cat, Racism

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

Coffee, Slave Labor, Years

Malcolm X, Benjamin Karim (1971). “The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches”, p.147, Arcade Publishing

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

Race, America, Islam

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

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

Thoughtful, White, People

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

Singing, Overcoming, Revolution

Malcolm X (1992). “Malcolm X Speaks Out”, Andrews McMeel Pub

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

Dying, Today, Regard

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.384, Ballantine Books

We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy - the white man. He's an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren't enemies. Time will tell.

Powerful, Men, Thinking

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