Malcolm X Quotes

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

Part of Obama’s genius is a remarkable ability to soothe race consciousness among whites …

I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.

I believe there are certainly racial problems in this country, and I believe that peaceful solutions can help bring the races together.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Race must never be a partisan issue.

Race has no place in American life or law.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve

Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

Racial problems can't be easily reconciled with a pat account about racism and discrimination that lets us sort of relax into saying when we finally get this right, when we get rid of racism, when we reach the post-racial society, everything is going to be okay. Well, no, because along the way here, as we've not yet been in this racial nirvana, facts on the ground have been created.

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.

I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in quality.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

I don't believe in blanket statements on race.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

A race-transcendent politics is most likely to succeed when the white community takes responsibility for overcoming its racism, not when the black community decides to forget it.

If you’re talking about American history, you’re talking about race.