Malcolm X

I might add, the whites who came here only say 50 years ago as immigrants have come into this country, they have set up businesses. They’ve developed these businesses into an industry.

Malcolm X

I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It’s, it’s no problem of mine.

Malcolm X

I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York City form of discrimination. It’s, it’s both discrimination; it’s all discrimination.

Malcolm X

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

Malcolm X

I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words.

Malcolm X

I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he’s a human being, then they will realize that he is just as capable and has the right to do anything that any other human being on this earth has a right to do to defend himself.

Malcolm X

I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.

Malcolm X

I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you’re going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.

Malcolm X

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

Malcolm X

I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America, for me to wind up in a prison was really just about inevitable. It happens to so many thousands of black youth.

Malcolm X