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

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

Malcolm X
Islam

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

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

I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me.

Malcolm X
Atheist, Islam, Open Minded
Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

Malcolm X
White, People, Islam
Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.369, Ballantine Books

White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

Malcolm X
White, People, Islam
Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

Malcolm X
Men, Islam, Humans
Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential.

Malcolm X
Religion Of Islam, Islam, Individual
Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.

Malcolm X
Believe, Religion Of Islam, Islam
Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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.

Malcolm X
Country, Islam, Connections
Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.

Malcolm X
Color, Islam, Skins
Source: nyx.uky.edu

Internal differences within the Nation of Islam forced me out of it. I did not leave of my own free will. But now that it has happened, I intend to make the most of it. Now that I have more independence of action, I intend to use a more flexible approach toward working with others to get a solution to this problem.

Malcolm X
Differences, Independence, Islam

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