Malcolm X

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

Malcolm X

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

Malcolm X

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

Malcolm X

These negroes aren’t asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.

Malcolm X

They don’t stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.

Malcolm X

They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want.

Malcolm X

They’re not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they’re using their positions and their education and their talent to exploit our people worse than the slave master did during slavery.

Malcolm X

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

Malcolm X

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn’t gambling, he’s cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

Malcolm X

Those who stay here can help those who go back, and those who go back can help those who stay here in the same way that when Jews go to Israel, the Jews in America help those in Israel and the Jews in Israel help those in America.

Malcolm X