Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated. Malcolm X More Quotes by Malcolm X More Quotes From Malcolm X We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go Malcolm X teach knows 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. Malcolm X men years thinking We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude. Malcolm X brother white attitude Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man, has found it impossible to bring about integration, other than toke on a ta - other than on a token basis, and which proves that the, the two of us, the ex-slave and the master, can't live in the same house as equals. Malcolm X white men two It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. Malcolm X slavery prison appreciation I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom, there are many whites who will fight on his side with him. Malcolm X fighting real thinking Growing is the result of learning. Malcolm X diversity growing justice We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose. Malcolm X unity truth people I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything Malcolm X have-no-fear no-fear men No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt. Malcolm X franklin-delano-roosevelt franklin president As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the school system is in the hands of the whites, you have a situation where the blacks are constantly begging the whites can they use this or can they use that. That's not any kind of equality of opportunity, nor does it lend toward one's dignity. Malcolm X opportunity hands school Instead of working for white man and helping him hold up a government that continues to suppress us socially and, and exploit us economically and oppress us politically, let us go and enter our own territory and use our own talents to uplift ourselves by our own bootstraps. And then he will recognize us for what we are. Malcolm X white-man uplifting men The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it! Malcolm X white-man devil men If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars that he has sent abroad trying to buy the friendship of the dark world will go right down the drain. Malcolm X uncles dark trying [ Uncle Sam] is not sending 20 billion dollars to South America because he loves those people down here. He's sending it - sending it to them because he needs their friendship, he needs their allegion - their allegiance. Malcolm X uncles america people 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? Malcolm X uncles country america Solve the race problem here, and once you solve the race problem here, you don't have to send these billions of dollars abroad. Malcolm X dollars problem race You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house. Malcolm X white-man house men It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism! Malcolm X decision years school I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears. Malcolm X intelligent teaching fall