Malcolm X Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.

  Malcolm X

  Mistake, Struggle, Men

• If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, People, Loving You

  "NYC Doubles Down on Petty Law Enforcement: Respecting Authority is What Democracy Is About" by Ed Krayewski, reason.com. July 28, 2014.

• So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear...

  Malcolm X

  Lying, Men, Over You

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

• Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Enemy, Fool

• It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

  Malcolm X

  Regret, Hate, People

  "Speech to Civil Rights Workers from Mississippi". malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com. January 1, 1965.

• As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a black man strikes back he's an extremist, he's supposed to sit passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, verbal or otherwise, he's supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself, then he's an extremist.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Long

  "The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2011.

• You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Enemy, Way

• You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

  Malcolm X

  Love You, Enemy, Revolution

  "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.

• Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Rights, Enemy

• The common enemy is the white man.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Enemy

• 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.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Enemy, Faces

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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

  Malcolm X

  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 war of Armageddon has already started... God is using his many weapons. He is sending hurricanes so fast that [the blue-eyed devils] can't name them. He is drowning them in floods and causing their cars to crash and their airplanes cannot stay up in the sky. Their boats are sinking because Allah controls all things and he is using all methods to begin to wipe the devils off the planet, [and] the enemy is dying of diseases that have never been so deadly.

  Malcolm X

  War, Airplane, Blue

• Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

  Malcolm X

  Sister, Brother, Believe

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

• Never allow your enemies to educate your children.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Enemy, Educate

• I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, White Man

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

• 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.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

• When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they consider to be the enemy isn't there. So, they knock at his property. This is what makes them knock down the store windows and set fire to things, and things of that sort.

  Malcolm X

  Wisdom, Men, Fire

• After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Enemy, Your Freedom

  Malcolm X, Steve Clark (2002). “Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the United States, Britain, and Africa”, Pathfinder Press

• Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Uncles, Kings

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Enemy, Protect

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• [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.

  Malcolm X

  Country, War, Enemy

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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