Malcolm X Quotes

Malcolm X
Malcolm X
American Activist
Born: May 19, 1925
Died: Feb 21, 1965
Black Man Me People White You
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Elizabeth Cady Stanton Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem. Malcolm X
Education Good Fight Problem Win Negroes Tell Jobs Solve Objectives Shall Imperative Main Support Housing Cannot While Them Good Education Necessary
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. Malcolm X
You Diner Must Table Some Born Eating Make America American Sitting Being Plate Here
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself. Malcolm X
Man Opportunity Black White State Honorable Says Given Himself Existence Done Separate Should Incentive Muhammad Right
Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek. Malcolm X
Man Black White Other Unless Someone Nobody Cheek America Turn Should Teach Teaching
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. Malcolm X
Superior Separation Segregation Voluntarily Forced Equals Inferior Done Which Two
Integration will not bring a man back from the grave. Malcolm X
Man Will Back Integration Grave Bring
History is not hatred. Malcolm X
History Hatred
My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster. Malcolm X
Father Name Know Got His Grandfather Who Last
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. Malcolm X
Success Time Failure Respect Value Our Proper Determines Deeds
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. Malcolm X
Me History Man Mistake Old Made Nothing White Books About He Read Non-Violent George His George Washington History Books Pat Man-Made Patriot Teaching Washington Henry Letting
For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears. Malcolm X
Me Devil Master White Some Parental Had Name Named Imposed Replaced Blue-Eyed Which Little Slave
We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way. Malcolm X
You People Try Black Forcing White Honorable Way Pretend Follow Laws Hypocritical Feel Accepting Pass Making Doing Integration America Act Muhammad Who Here
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace. Malcolm X
God Man Peace White Honorable Earth Brotherhood Kingdom About Establish Against Us Teaches Muhammad Now Based
Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races. Malcolm X
You Result Would Both Point Do You Know Know Without Real Integration Behind Disintegration Races Really Means
The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him. Malcolm X
Feeling Other Hundreds Brotherhood He Conception Concern Him American Millions
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Malcolm X
Religion Book Nothing Our Koran Intelligent Us Teaches Peacefully Suffer
If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X
You People Will Hating Doing Oppressed Being Loving Newspapers Who Careful
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