Malcolm X Quotes

American Black rights activist (1925–1965)

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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, or Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little (19 May 1925 – 21 February 1965) was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. For many years, he was a major proponent of the Nation of Islam, espousing black supremacy, the separation of black and white Americans, and scoffing at the civil rights movement's emphasis on racial integration. By March 1964, he had grown disillusioned with the Nation of Islam and ultimately repudiated its teachings, embracing Sunni Islam; while continuing to emphasize Pan-Africanism, black self-determination, and black self-defense, disavowing racism. In February 1965, he was assassinated by three men, all of whom were affiliated with the Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published shortly after his death, is considered one of the most influential non-fiction books of the 20th century.

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Pen Names: Malachi Shabazz

Birth Name: Malcolm Little

Alternative Names: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz • Malcolm Shabazz • Malik El-Shabazz

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The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

You cannot separate peace and freedom .Because noone can be at peace unless he has his freedom .

Where the really sincere white people have got to do their “proving” of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America’s racism really is — and that’s in their own home communities; America’s racism is among their own fellow whites. That’s where the sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work.

Time is more important to me then distance

there seemed to be a higher code of ethics and sisterliness among those prostitutes than among numerous ladies of the church who have more men for kicks than the prostitutes have for pay.

"When the meat platter was passed to me, I didn't even know what the meat was; usually, you couldn't tell, anyway-but it was suddenly as though _don't eat any more pork_ flashed on a screen before me.

I hesitated, with the platter in mid-air; then I passed it along to the inmate waiting next to me. He began serving himself; abruptly, he stopped. I remember him turning, looking surprised at me.

I said to him, "I don't eat pork."

The platter then kept on down the table.
It was the funniest thing, the reaction, and the way that it spread. In prison, where so little breaks the monotonous routine, the smallest thing causes a commotion of talk. It was being mentioned all over the cell block by night that Satan didn't eat pork."

عندما يشعر الناس بالحزن لا يفعلون شيئا سوى البكاء على حالهم، أما عندما يغضبون يحدثون تغيراً

إن الرجل الأبيض لايعرف كيف يضحك. إنه فقط يبدي أسنانه, أما نحن فإننا نعرف كيف نضحك . نحن تنبع الضحكة من أعمق أعماقنا

I could spend the rest of my life
READING,
Just satisfying my
CURIOSITY
- because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

Never ask a woman about other men.
Either she'll tell you a lie, and you still won't know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place.

كنت في المنحدر فأنقذني ولكن عندما أفكر في ذلك أجد أننا أنقذنا بعضنا البعض

عندما يدخل الإنسان إلى السجن تتغير نظرته إلى نفسه وإلى الناس. إن السوقيين الذين بقيت سفينتهم تنساب بهم خارج أسوار السجون على مياه هادئة, يحتقرون الخارجين من السجن, ولكن الخارج من السجن يبقى مرفوع الرأس عندما تغرق بهؤلاء سفينتهم

So our next move is to take the entire civil rights struggle problems into the United Nations, and let the world see that Uncle Sam is guilty of violating the human rights of 22 million Afro-Americans...
Uncle Sam . . . and still has the audacity or the nerve to stand up and represent himself as the leader of the free world. Not only is he a crook, he's a hypocrite. Here he is standing up in front of other people, Uncle Sam, with the blood of your and my mothers and fathers on his hands, with the blood dripping down his jaws like a bloody-jawed wolf, and still got the nerve to point his finger at other countries. You can't even get civil rights legislation. And this man has got the nerve to stand up and talk about South Africa, or talk about Nazi Germany, or talk about Deutschland.