Quotes from Malcolm X

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

If, 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.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

The common enemy is the white man.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything