Quotes about Malcolm X

Malcolm X's separatist ideas were situational. If you think about where African-Americans were in the 1940s and 1950s, we needed to step away because that force, which is still present but more subdued, was very in your face, and we needed to take a step back just to get some clarity.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

Where the really sincere white people have got to do their "proving" of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is—and that's in their own home communities; America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where the sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work. Aside

Sometimes, I have a dared dream to myself that one day, history may even say that my voice--which disturbed the white man's smugness, and his arrogance, and his complacency--that my voice helped to save America from a grave, possibly even a fatal catastrophe.

The greatest single reason for [the] Christian church's failure . . . is its failure to combat racism.

If I weren't out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity - because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

He believed, as did Marcus Garvey, that freedom, independence and self-respect could never be achieved by the Negro in America, and that therefore the Negro should leave America to the white man and return to his African land of origin.

As testimony to the power of redemption and the force of human personality, the autobiography of Malcolm X is a revelation.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

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