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Malcolm X Quotes about Country - Page 2

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[White men] has the audacity to call himself even the Leader of the Free World while he has a country that can't even give the basic human rights to over twenty-two million of its citizens. This is aud-, this is, this

[White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't even give the basic human rights to over twenty-two million of its citizens. This is aud-, this is, this takes audacity; this takes nerve. So it is this attitude today that's causing the Americans to be condemned.

Country, Attitude, Men

Source: nyx.uky.edu

You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country?

Country, Answers, Way

Source: nyx.uky.edu

I grew up in the country on a farm it was whenever someone said even that a snake was eating the chickens or bothering the chickens, we'd kill snakes. We never knew whether that was the snake that did it.

Country, Snakes, Eating

Source: nyx.uky.edu

Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?

Country, Uncles, America

A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to become involved in a bloodless revolution. The Russian revolution was bloody, Chinese revolution was bloody, French revolution was bloody, Cuban revolution was bloody, and there was nothing more bloody then the American Revolution. But today this country can become involved in a revolution that won't take bloodshed. All she's got to do is give the black man in this country everything that's due him, everything.

Country, Men, Unique

"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.

There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed.

Country, White, People

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

The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when one accepts the religion of Islam, he's known as a Muslim.

Country, Religion Of Islam, People

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

They came to this country they, they were Hungarians, they were Communists from a Communist country. And right now those Hungarian freedom fighters can get jobs that student sit-ins can't get. They can go and sleep and live in hotels that Martin Luther King himself can't live in.They are recognized and respected because they are fighters, not because they are sit-iners or freedom.

Country, Kings, Jobs

Give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.

Country, Self, People

When you have to pass a law to make a man let me have a house, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me go to school, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me walk down the street, you have to enforce that law and you'd have to be living actually in a police state. It would take a police state in this country.

Country, School, Men

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

In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

Country, White, Black

The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people.

Country, Real, Taken

Source: nyx.uky.edu

Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

Country, Liberty

Source: historynewsnetwork.org

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

Country, War, Race

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

Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black man even started in that direction, which is a mature step and it's the only way to really solve this problem and to prove that he is the intellectual equal of others, why, the racists and the segregationists would fight that harder than they're fighting the present efforts to integrate.

Country, Fighting, Men

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

It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the power of the dollar.

Country, Seductive, Dollars

That's not our problem, that's America's problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this earth, they could see that it - we are closer toward getting a separate territory in this country than the integrationists are toward getting integration.

Country, Uncles, Average

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

Country, America, Revolution

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

Country, Way, Prison

Source: nyx.uky.edu

It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans.

Country, Eggs, Two

Source: nyx.uky.edu

At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.

Country, Islam, Connections

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

In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration, as they've been making an effort to do in this country for the past years, is also just as impractical.

Country, Past, Years

Source: nyx.uky.edu

America is a white man's country.

Country, Men, White Man

Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and the position of the Afro- American or negro in American history. [He] has done a remarkable job in fighting for rights of black people in this country. On the other hand, he probably hasn't done as much as he could or as much as he should because he is the most independent negro politician in this country.

Country, Jobs, Independent

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

We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We don't feel that in 1964, living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom, and supposedly the leader of the free world, we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a President from Texas in Washington, D.C., to make up their minds that our people are due now some degree of civil rights. No, we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it.

Country, Mean, Thinking

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

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