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Quotes Malcolm X, Source unknown Malcolm X, NYC, 20 Dec. 1964
We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an
intelligent human being.
Malcolm X, NYC, 20 Dec. 1964
I'm the man you think you
are.... If you want to know what I'll do, figure out what you'll do. I'll do the
same thing--only more of it.
Malcolm X, Source unknown
Who ever heard of angry revolutionists all harmonizing "We shall overcome
... Suum Day.. ." while tripping and swaying along arm-in-arm with the very people
they were supposed to be angrily revolting against ? Who ever heard of angry revolutionists
swinging their bar e feet together with their oppressor in lily-pad park pools,
with gospels and guitars and "I have a dream" speeches ? And the black masses
in America were - and still are - having a nightmare.
Malcolm X, Source unknown
I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what
confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own
program, and when the people create a program, you get action.
Malcolm X, (taken from the essay 'Malcolm X, our revolutionary
son & brother.' by Patricia Robinson)
I might point out here that colonialism or imperialism, as the slave system
of the West is called, is not something that is just confined to England or France
or the United States. The interests in this country are in cahoots with the interests
in France and the in terests in Britain. It's one huge complex or combine, and
it creates what's known not as the American power structure or the French power
structure, but an international power st ructure. This international power structure
is used to suppress the masses of dark-skinned people all over the world and exploit
them of their natural resources.
Malcolm X, February 14, 1965 (taken from the essay
'Malcolm X, our revolutionary son & brother.' by Patricia Robinson)
The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows
that the Black Revolution is worldwid e in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution
is sweeping Asia, is sweeping Africa, is rearing its head in Latin America. The
Cuban Revolution - that's a revolution. They overturned the system. Revolution
is in Asia, revolution is in Africa, and the whit man is screaming because he
sees revolution in Latin America. How do you think he'll react to you wh en you
learn what a real revolution is ?
Malcolm X, November 9, 1963 (taken from the essay 'Malcolm
X, our revolutionary son & brother.' by Patricia Robinson)
The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim
movement was that all of us believed 100 per cent 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. And when
that shock reached me, then I began t o look everywhere else and try to get a
better understanding of the things that confront all of us so that we can get
together in some kind of way to offset them.
Malcolm X, February 14, 1965 (taken from the essay
'Malcolm X, our revolutionary son & brother.' by Patricia Robinson)
I think that an objective analysis of events that are taking place on this
earth today points towards some type of ultimate showdown. You can call it political
showdown, or even a showdown between the economic systems that exist on this earth
which almost boil down along racial lines. I do believe that there will be a clash
between East and West. I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between
the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a
clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those
who want to continue the systems of exploitation.
Malcolm X, January 19, 1965 (taken from the essay 'Malcolm
X, our revolutionary son & brother.' by Patricia Robinson)
Respect me, or put me to death.
Malcolm X, NYC, 5 July 1964
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to
identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers
to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, ... Cuba - yes Cuba too.
Malcolm X, Militant, 10 June 1964, p.3
You show me a capitalist and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed
and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be the
victims of God's divine wrath. Malcolm X, May 1963, the Playboy interview
(about his father) The image of him that made me proudest was his crusading
and militant campaigning with th e words of Marcus Garvey. . . . I can remember
hearing . . . "Africa for the Africans," "Ethiopians, Awake!" And my father
would talk about how it would not be much longer before Africa would be completely
run by Negroes - "by black men," was the phrase he always used. "No one knows
when the hour of Africa's redemption cometh. It is in the wind. It is coming.
One day, like a storm, it will be there.
Malcolm X, in Kenneth B. Clark, "King, Malcolm, Baldwin
: Three Interviews", rev. ed. (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press,
1985), pp. 33-48
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom.
Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people,
I say to hell with that religion.
Malcolm X, to Harlem blacks, in By any means,p. 140
The dangers that confront the black man in America and Africa are very great and
serious. These dangers cannot be fought with petty personality attacks, nor will
they be fought with pretensions. The emancipation of all black people from white
domination, oppression, and exploitation will be fought with revolutionary firmness,
determination, dedication, honesty, and integrity. Black leaders cannot mobilize
the grass roots to fight their oppression and exploitation while plagued with
personal ambitions. We must submerge our past differences and create a unified
black movement cutting across the United States and South America with deep roots
in African soil. Africans abroad can thus through such a movement exert pressure
on their governments in the formation of their foreign policies in regard to Africa.
They can also form lobby groups such as other ethnic groups do in Washington to
force the United States Government to accept the representation of African-Americans
in all organs of government including those in charge of decisions. In short,
in order that African-Americans must become free they must first reidentify themsellves
with Africa as do Jews, Irish, Germans, and Italians with the respective countries
of their origin. The following were his remarks regarding black scholars
and their role in the liberation of the African people at home and abroad: Very
often our people have been led to believe that a black man can only be considered
an intellectual or scholar if he has been to Oxford University or Harvard University.
This is not true. This approach to education has only helped to produce black
Europeans out of our educated people and false black scholars who have been a
liability to the black race in Africa and America over the period of one hundred
years. What is actually meant by theoretical or academic education? The unity
of theoretical education and the application of this wealth of knowledge to the
practical requirements and demands of our liberation is a difficult challenge.
In a freedom struggle such as the one that exists in Africa and America today
the unity of thought and action must be the cornerstone of all of us who desire
to work for the total emancipation of the black race. There is a wide superficial
tendency among some of our intellectuals that reading quotations from Marx, Lenin,
and Mao Tse-Tung can make them masters of revolutionary theories developed by
these great men. Intellectualism in my view is not merely the recitation of Marxism,
Leninism, and Mao Tse-tung theories. Anyone who goes about misusing the works
of these great men or attributing to himself their progressive phrases for his
own ends is committing a serious crime against the black race. A scholar in my
opnion constitutes a guiding light in a revolutionary period and is the bond that
unites the abstract and the concrete.
Malcolm X, Concerning the black leaders and their respective
organizations. Statements of Malcolm X in Mosque No. 7, (written down by Mburumba
Kerina in "Malcolm X - The Apostle of Defiance - An African View")
A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes
pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood,
it can never fulfill itself.
Malcolm X, Source unknown
I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what
confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own
program, and when the people create a program, you get action.
Malcolm X, Source unknown
I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control.
I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for
and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!
Malcolm X, Source unknown
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, Source unknown
I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those
that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who
want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue
the systems of exploitation.
Malcolm X, Source unknown
She's the only person I'd trust with my life.
Malcolm X, to Alex Haley, on his wife Betty
When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the
sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying
he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't
do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't
believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the
sun to acquire . . . or preserve his freedom.
Malcolm X, Source unknown
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