Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward. Malcolm X More Quotes by Malcolm X More Quotes From Malcolm X 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 . Malcolm X color racism men When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing. Malcolm X grandmother children school Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality. Malcolm X independence land justice In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being Malcolm X islamic cities wisdom If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it. Malcolm X white-man beautiful men Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. Understand that. Whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. And anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is breaking the law, is a criminal. Malcolm X effort rights law We are about to have a racial explosion. Malcolm X explosions Whenever any black man in america shows signs of an uncompromising attitude, against the injustices that he experiences daily, and shows no tendency whatsoever to compromise with it, then the American press [characterizes him] as a radical, as an extremist someone who's irresponsible, or as a rabble rouser or someone who doesn't rationalize in dealing with the problem. Malcolm X attitude men america Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention. Malcolm X race men america If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate us, we'd see some action. Talk is cheap, if white people didn't want to have a South African situation ... there'd be none. If white people in America didn't want segregation, there'd be none ... it is the man who allows him to lynch who is never seen. Malcolm X hate white men The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history. Malcolm X occupation intelligent israel Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. Malcolm X defense freedom real I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I'm also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people. Malcolm X mean country people The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent. Malcolm X religion-of-islam rights feelings I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere. Malcolm X best-things sincere thinking Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action. Malcolm X attitude philosophy thinking I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his. Malcolm X toes violence men The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him. Malcolm X white-man use men When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with "hate". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of "hatred"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race. Malcolm X hate men book Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself. Malcolm X realizing war
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