Quotes from Malcolm X

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive." ? Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

the numbers game was referred to by the white racketeers as "nigger pool.

King James was brilliant. He was the greatest king who ever sat on the British throne. Who else among royalty, in his time, would have had the giant talent to write Shakespeare's works? It was he who poetically fixed the Bible - which in itself and in its present King James version enslaved the world.

I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die.

All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.

Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.

Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.