Malcolm X

The same as in a German neighborhood, the stores are run by Germans, and in a Chinese neighborhood they’re run by Chinese. In the negro neighborhood the businesses should be owned and operated by Negroes and, thereby, they would be employing, and, and they would be creating employment for Negroes.

Malcolm X

The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die.

Malcolm X

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

Malcolm X

The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in the divinity of Elijah Muhammad. We believed in him. We actually believed that God, in Detroit by the way, that God had taught him and all of that. I always believed that he believed in himself. And I was shocked when I found out that he himself didn’t believe it.

Malcolm X

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

Malcolm X

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

Malcolm X

The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild.

Malcolm X

The white race is doomed not because it’s white but because of its deeds.

Malcolm X

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

Malcolm X

There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself – as it is constructed – is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed.

Malcolm X