Malcolm X

I don’t have any hate. I’ve got some sense. I’m not going to let anybody who hates me tell me to love him. I’m not that way-out.

Malcolm X

I don’t mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I’m nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you’ve made me go insane, and I’m not responsible for what I do.

Malcolm X

I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Malcolm X

I don’t think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

Malcolm X

I don’t think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values.

Malcolm X

I don’t think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else’s bus doesn’t dignify you.

Malcolm X

I don’t trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That’s my yardstick for measuring whites.

Malcolm X

I dream that one day, history will look upon me as having been one of the voices that helped to save America from a grave, even possibly fatal catastrophe.

Malcolm X

I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else’s control. I feel that what I’m thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!

Malcolm X

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

Malcolm X