Latest Malcolm X Quotes from Interviews

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• At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me.

  Malcolm X

  Intelligent, Enough, Used

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison].

  Malcolm X

  Intelligent, Leader, Reverends

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.

  Malcolm X

  Reverends, Suspicious

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

  Malcolm X

  Support, Leader, Structure

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

• I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Men, People

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

• Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Men, Battle

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

• I admire the, the stand of China and the stand of Mao Tse- tung, but I can't admire with respect the stand of, of Nehru in India. I just can't do it.

  Malcolm X

  Nehru, India, Mao

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Thinking, Roles

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• I think that Nehru probably was a good man, although I didn't go for it. I don't go for anybody who is passive. I don't go for anybody who advocates passivism or peaceful suffering in any form whatsoever. I don't go for it.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Peaceful

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

• Eleanor Roosevelt could easily have told negroes the deceitful maneuvering of the United States government that was going on behind the scenes. She never did it. In my opinion she was just another white woman whose profession was to make it appear that she was on the negro's side. You have a lot of whites who are in this category. Therefore, they have made negro loving a profession.

  Malcolm X

  White, Government, Behind The Scenes

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

• No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

  Malcolm X

  President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Tongue

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

• Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced to. Kennedy didn't even make his speech based on this problem being a moral issue until Negroes exploded in Birmingham.

  Malcolm X

  Issues, Looks, Speech

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, "No federal statutes have been violated." And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Jail, Government

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

• [JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Purpose, Cold

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose primary aim was to free them, and he died because he freed them.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Unions, Saving

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

  Malcolm X

  Slave, Said, Abraham

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Tricks

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out.

  Malcolm X

  Fire, Community, Burning

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours.

  Malcolm X

  Problem, Concerned, Known

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

• I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That if you go outside of New York City, Dr. [Martin Luther] King is known to 90 percent of the Negroes in the United States and is respected and, and is identified more or less with him, at least as a hero of one kind or another. That the Black Muslim, outside of one or two communities like New York, are unknown.

  Malcolm X

  New York, Kings, Hero

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

• [Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this.

  Malcolm X

  White, Leader, Allies

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, White, Leader

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

• The white press itself created civil right leaders.

  Malcolm X

  White, Leader, Presses

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.

  Malcolm X

  Harlem, Walks, Walkers

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, slidelegend.com. June 2, 1964..