Malcolm X Quotes

Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.

We never discuss race until something bad happens.

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

Race remains a significant challenge in America.

The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of it amplified by shootings of African-Americans by police, as we've seen recently in Charlotte and Tulsa.

If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?

The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of teaching black supremacy when he tries to uplift the mentality, the social, mental and economic condition of the black people in America.

Yet it seems that a final race struggle is unavoidable

I think there's an awakening now of a realization that we too early congratulated ourselves on the end of racial prejudice and white supremacy. And that was a feeling that we had when I was president, that we had pretty much overcome that problem.

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.

I don't sign for white people.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.

If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the trial of George Zimmerman. We think about the prosecution, when they said "race is not a factor." It's so dishonest.

At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

The white race is the cancer of human history.

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

I don't think that the country is ever ready to have the conversation about race.

Although the race problem may seem to lie dormant at times, it continually exists, lives on and on and sometimes rages with all the fury of a jungle beast. It gnaws at the very vitals of our existence, in time it will sap our strength and destroy the greatness of our American way of life unless solved properly and permanently.

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

The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it.