Malcolm X Quotes

There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

Take up the white man's burden — Send forth the best ye breed — Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.

The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white.

For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to "civilize" Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people.

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?

We should be lords over them…these are the politics of South Africa.

White Man’s Road Thru Black Man’s Home!

Everything that America has done crudely and shamelessly to suppress the Negro, England in Sierra Leone has done legally and suavely …

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you see how the white man today has changed his tactics, but he still occupies the same position, in that same context you find Uncle Tom. He has changed his tactics but he still occupies the same position.

The common enemy is the white man.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy.

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.