Malcolm X Quotes About Integration

Quotes about: Integration

• America preaches integration and practices segregation.

  Malcolm X

  Practice, America, Segregation

  Malcolm X (1992). “Malcolm X Speaks Out”, Andrews McMeel Pub

• I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, White, Humanity

  Malcolm X, Bruce Perry (1989). “Malcolm X: the last speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

• The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference, they don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa practices and preaches the same thing.

  Malcolm X

  Practice, Differences, America

• Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and well-educated. He's often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro -by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Mean, Men

• We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Two, Liberty

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

• 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

  Law, White, America

  "Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again 50 Years Later". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 4, 2012.

• No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Black

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.252, Ballantine Books

• Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.

  Malcolm X

  Snail, Integrated, Integration

• Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way the black people caught up in this society can be saved is not to integrate into this corrupt society, but to separate from it, to a land of our own, where we can reform ourselves, lift up our moral standards and try to be godly.

  Malcolm X

  Godly, Land, People

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.282, Ballantine Books

• The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the ghettos, like animals. They want to live in an open, free society where they can walk with their heads up, like men, and women! Few white people realize that many black people today dislike and avoid spending more time than they must about white people. This 'integration' image, as it is popularly interpreted, has millions of vain, self-exalted white people convinced that black people want to sleep in bed with them - and that's a lie!

  Malcolm X

  Lying, Sleep, Ghetto

• We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Justice, Diversity

• We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow, then let's integrate. But since the Supreme Court issued its desegregation decision seven years ago, and you only have about six or seven percent integration now, on an educational level, that means that the black man trying to use integration as a means of solving his problem will be another 100 years just getting integration on an educational level.

  Malcolm X

  Educational, Mean, Men

• You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, House

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism!

  Malcolm X

  School, Years, Decision

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• 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.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Past, Years

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Tomorrow

• Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man, has found it impossible to bring about integration, other than toke on a ta - other than on a token basis, and which proves that the, the two of us, the ex-slave and the master, can't live in the same house as equals.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Two, White

• The only minority in America that's asking for integration is the so-called Negro, primarily because he is inferior, not inherently inferior, but he's economically, socially, politically inferior.

  Malcolm X

  America, Minorities, Asking

• If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars that he has sent abroad trying to buy the friendship of the dark world will go right down the drain.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Dark, Trying

• The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Men, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Graves, Integration

  "Brown University student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech". www.nj.com. February 6, 2012.

• To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.

  Malcolm X

  Integration, Practicals

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

• 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.

  Malcolm X

  Goal, Leader, Done

• Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind.

  Malcolm X

  Drawing, Trying, Want

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Black, Recognition

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