Malcolm X Quotes

I find it difficult [to believe] that... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or... hatred, because their own history and... teachings are filled with it.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

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.

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

Who taught you to hate yourself?

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

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.

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.

Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.

Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil.

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

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

But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.

You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

I don’t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

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?

When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

We are about to have a racial explosion.

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

My sincerity is my credentials.

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

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.

[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.

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

Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.

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

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!

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.

Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

You don't integrate with a sinking ship.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.