Quotes from Malcolm X
If you are born in America with a black skin, you're in prison
— Malcolm X
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
— Malcolm X
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?
— Malcolm X
King James was brilliant. He was the greatest king who ever sat on the British throne. Who else among royalty, in his time, would have had the giant talent to write Shakespeare's works? It was he who poetically fixed the Bible - which in itself and in its present King James version enslaved the world.
— Malcolm X
It seems that some women love to be exploited. when they are not exploited, they exploit the man.
— Malcolm X
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 don't have to go behind bars to be in jail in this country. If you are born in this country with black skin you are already in jail, you are already confined, you are already watched over by a warden who poses as your mayor and poses as your governor and poses as your President.
— Malcolm X
Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power, anxieties are created.
— Malcolm X
the numbers game was referred to by the white racketeers as "nigger pool.
— Malcolm X
Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.
— Malcolm X
Our slave foreparents would have been put to death for advocating so-called 'integration' with the white man. Now when Mr. Muhammad speaks of 'separation,' the white man calls us 'hate-teachers' and 'fascists'!
— Malcolm X
A thousand ways every day, the white man is telling you You can't live here, you can't enter here, you can't eat here, drink here, walk here, work here, you can't ride here, you can't play here, you can't study here. Haven't we seen enough to see that he has no plan to *unite* with you?
— Malcolm X