Malcolm X Quotes - Page 24

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• Only in this form of separation the black man is exploited. 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

  Men, Opportunity, White

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• You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode because black people are dissatisfied; they're dissatisfied not only with the white man, but they're dissatisfied with these Negroes who have been sitting around here posing as leaders and spokesmen for black people and actually making the problem worse instead of making the problem better.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, People

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Liberty

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• Why must I run against a Negro? We have had enough of Negroes running against and fighting with each other. The better bet is that we would put a Muslim candidate in the field against a devil, somebody who is against all we stand for.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Fighting, Devil

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Tongue

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Real, Taken

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Should, Reserves

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in the white man's house, begging the white man for a job, for food, clothing and shelter. And then after the white man provides him with all of these things, he turns around and get - has the nerve to get angry at the white man when the white man tries to control his life.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Men, Boys

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• You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

  Malcolm X

  Country, War, Race

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

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• I think, again, that that does the whole problem a, a disservice. It's not a case of our wanting to mix socially with whites. And when you - and the whites are right in the South when they say that getting a cup of coffee in a restaurant is not going to solve - is all right.

  Malcolm X

  Coffee, Thinking, Doe

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• Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black man even started in that direction, which is a mature step and it's the only way to really solve this problem and to prove that he is the intellectual equal of others, why, the racists and the segregationists would fight that harder than they're fighting the present efforts to integrate.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Fighting, Men

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

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• 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

  Teaching, Men, White Man

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• Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Religion Of Islam, Islam

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• It gives [a man] the incentive to develop his dormant potential so that when he becomes a part of the brotherhood of Islam, and is identified collectively in the brotherhood of Islam with the brothers in Islam, at the same time this also gives him the, it has the psychological effect of giving him the incentive as an individual to develop all of his dormant potential to its fullest extent.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Men, Giving

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• I have gone through the process of re-evaluating, giving a personal re-evaluation to everything that I ever believed and that I did believe while I was a, a member and a minister.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Giving, Gone

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

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• White is an attitude.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, White

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

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• The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, White, World

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.353, Ballantine Books

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• I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Class, White

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

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• It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the power of the dollar.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Seductive, Dollars

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• Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

  Malcolm X

  School, Ghetto, Cities

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.125, Ballantine Books

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• When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Black, Want

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• What does a black man look like begging for a cup of coffee in a white restaurant, and doesn't have a job to back up his - to pay for it when, when - when he does get the coffee? It's putting the cart before the horse.

  Malcolm X

  Horse, Jobs, Coffee

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• The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

  Malcolm X

  Light, Roots, Tree

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• 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..

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• 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.

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