Malcolm X

In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

Malcolm X

In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of his own, a God of his own, a language of his own. Most of all he must have love and devotion for his own kind.

Malcolm X

In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I’m also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration, as they’ve been making an effort to do in this country for the past years, is also just as impractical.

Malcolm X

In the ghettoes the white man has built for us, he has forced us not to aspire to greater things, but to view everyday living as survival-and in that kind of a community, survival is what is respected.

Malcolm X

In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don’t even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.

Malcolm X

Instead of the Negro leaders having the black man begging for a chance to – to dine in white restaurants, the Negro leader should be showing the black man how to do something to strengthen his own economy.

Malcolm X

Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.

Malcolm X

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

Malcolm X

It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

Malcolm X

It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn’t integration, that’s tokenism!

Malcolm X