Malcolm X

That morning was when I first began to reappraise the ‘white man.’ It was when I first began to perceive that ‘white man,’ as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions.

Malcolm X

That’s not a chip on my shoulder, that’s your foot on my neck.

Malcolm X

That’s not our problem, that’s America’s problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this earth, they could see that it – we are closer toward getting a separate territory in this country than the integrationists are toward getting integration.

Malcolm X

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

Malcolm X

The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world.

Malcolm X

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn’t flat.

Malcolm X

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

Malcolm X

The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when one accepts the religion of Islam, he’s known as a Muslim.

Malcolm X

The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.

Malcolm X

The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death.

Malcolm X