Quotes from Malcolm X
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
- Malcolm X
It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
- Malcolm X
You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
- Malcolm X
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
- Malcolm X
Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.
- Malcolm X
[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.
- Malcolm X
When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.
- Malcolm X
The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.
- Malcolm X
The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!
- Malcolm X
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
- Malcolm X
Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
- Malcolm X
God is more lasting than the white man.
- Malcolm X