Malcolm X Quotes

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."

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

America is a white man's country.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.

Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people. - Ta

I don't sign for white people.

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.

Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back?

All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk about white supremacy, not to talk about its legacy, from slavery to lynching to mass incarceration, and what it has developed into.

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.