A man without any history is like a tree without roots Malcolm X More Quotes by Malcolm X More Quotes From Malcolm X The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world. Malcolm X whiteworldthinking [White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't even give the basic human rights to over twenty-two million of its citizens. This is aud-, this is, this takes audacity; this takes nerve. So it is this attitude today that's causing the Americans to be condemned. Malcolm X attitudemencountry When you have to pass a law to make a man let me have a house, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me go to school, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me walk down the street, you have to enforce that law and you'd have to be living actually in a police state. It would take a police state in this country. Malcolm X mencountryschool Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison. Malcolm X structuresupportleader Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem. Malcolm X tokenismheartjobs Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him. Malcolm X harlemwalkerswalks Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does. Malcolm X whitneyyoungdoe I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it. Malcolm X understandingenoughthinking That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting these so-called middle-class values, standards, it's not that they are taking something from the white man, but they are probably identifying again with the level or standard that these same whites have gotten from them back during that period. Malcolm X white-manclassmen Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband. Malcolm X prisonpeople When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going to be detrimental to all of them, they'll keep that, perhaps they'll then take the necessary steps to keep their fellow snakes away from my chickens or away from my children if the responsibility is placed upon them. Malcolm X snakesresponsibilitychildren I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours. Malcolm X concernedknownproblem My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages, who brought about the period, or ushered in or initiated the atmosphere that brought into Europe the period known as the Renaissance. Malcolm X darkeuropepeople Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University. Malcolm X universityprofessors At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me. Malcolm X usedintelligentenough And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago. Malcolm X fourclassyears I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values? Malcolm X whiteclassthinking My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it. Malcolm X reverendssuspicious I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise. Malcolm X organizationreligiousthinking The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational principles if someone comes up with a solution that will really solve the problem. Malcolm X sacrificeorganizationprinciples
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