Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband. Malcolm X More Quotes by Malcolm X More Quotes From Malcolm X The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you will let anyone come in and take control of the economy of your community, control the housing, control the education, control the jobs, control the businesses, under the pre-text that you want to integrate. No, you outta your mind. Malcolm X intelligent jobs men History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. Malcolm X inspiring men memories Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding. Malcolm X communication language understanding Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil. Malcolm X devil doe people They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery. Malcolm X differences practice america The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks. Malcolm X islam white people America preaches integration and practices segregation. Malcolm X segregation practice america You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress. Malcolm X knives progress men The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans. Malcolm X rights justice america I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me. Malcolm X islam open-minded atheist And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education. Malcolm X learning education mean 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. Malcolm X wall college spiritual My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master. Malcolm X real names father I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds and his conscious behavior. And it teaches me to be for the rights of all human beings, but especially the Afro-American human being, because my religion is a natural religion, and the first law of nature is self-preservation. Malcolm X self rights men I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose. Malcolm X groups trying men How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours? Malcolm X ballots giving men If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own problems, there won't be any explosion, and the Negroes who want to stay with the white man, let them stay with the white man - but those who want to leave, let them go to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm X white-man land men Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political science throughout the nation to help us. We will encourage these young students to launch their own independent study, and then give us their analysis and their suggestions. We are completely disenchanted with the old, adult, established politicians. We want to see some new faces -- more militant faces. Malcolm X independent giving ideas To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive. Malcolm X understanding identity attitude Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent. Malcolm X philosophical spiritual mean