Home / Quotes / Quote by Malcolm X

Quote by Malcolm X

“You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.”

Quote by Malcolm X

Author

Malcolm X was a prominent human rights activist, born on May 19, 1925, and died on February 21, 1965. He played a significant role in the civil rights movement, advocating for black self-liberation and rights. His ideas and actions have had a profound impact on future generations. more

You May Also Like

“Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.”

Color Judging Complexion

Author:Malcolm X

“The white devil's time is up.”

Author:Malcolm X

“The number one thing that has to be done, [black men] has to be retaught, be given - he has to be reeducated and made to know that he's a man, like anyone else, and then he can stand on his own two feet, like others have done.”

Knows Men Made Two Done Given Black Numbers One Thing Feet

Author:Malcolm X

“What Mr. Muhammad says is, they should take their Navy and their - Merchant Fleet and ship us back where they got us.And that's not deportation, that's - returning stolen property to its proper owner.Now, since the government doesn't want to do that, then they - and they have already proven that they can't bring about peaceful relations on an integrated basis in this country, give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.”

“We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.”

Thinking Begging

Author:Malcolm X

“We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow, then let's integrate. But since the Supreme Court issued its desegregation decision seven years ago, and you only have about six or seven percent integration now, on an educational level, that means that the black man trying to use integration as a means of solving his problem will be another 100 years just getting integration on an educational level.”

“What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to sit around and wait for five years to get this problem solved, much less a hundred years.”

People Thinking Men Needs Years Problem Today America Waiting Black Realizing White Five Willing Hundred Five Years Black People White Man

Author:Malcolm X

“Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.”

Knows Men Problem Can Do White Tomorrow Integration White Man

Author:Malcolm X

“I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people.”

People Thinking Men Years Suffering Turns Black Teach Land Injustice Wicked Black People Cheeks Bondage Traitor Inhuman Turn The Other Cheek

Author:Malcolm X

“Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.”

Men Should America Turns Black White Teach Teaching Cheeks White Man Turn The Other Cheek

Author:Malcolm X