We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Malcolm X More Quotes by Malcolm X More Quotes From Malcolm X That's not our problem, that's America's problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this earth, they could see that it - we are closer toward getting a separate territory in this country than the integrationists are toward getting integration. Malcolm X uncles average country The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat that we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige, and concentrate our united efforts toward solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America. Malcolm X differences hurt thinking The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative. Malcolm X prison country way There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed. Malcolm X white country people 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 gutters devil men While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim. Malcolm X prison vices evil In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in. Malcolm X leader country thinking If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. And what America is trying to do is pass laws to force whites to pretend that they want Negroes into their schools or into - in their places of employment. Malcolm X gun men school White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts are designed to eliminate this, that or, or the next thing but, yet, it is never eliminated is in no way impressive to me. Malcolm X jail white people You don't integrate with a sinking ship. Malcolm X sinking ships integrating In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes. Malcolm X heart attitude order The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace. Malcolm X religion-of-islam muhammad honorable Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated. Malcolm X men america years And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might personally meet a fatal catastrophe first - 'non-violent' Dr. King, or so-called 'violent' me. Malcolm X kings men country You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months. Malcolm X race white years Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it. Malcolm X jail dog men By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. If I have children and they live in my house, I care for them, they're dependent upon me. And their dependence upon me puts me in a position to regulate their lives, control their lives, tell them where to go, where they can't go. That's a form of segregation. Malcolm X differences two children Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C. Malcolm X pharaohs sitting today When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church. Join that church. If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization, civic, religious, fraternal, political, or otherwise that's based on lifting the black man up and making him master of his own community. Malcolm X religious philosophy past Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. Malcolm X white justice mean
