Quotes from Malcolm X

I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.

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, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve.

[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready.

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

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.

White is an attitude.

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.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any organization as long as it didn't make us compromise our religious principles.

Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization.

Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

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.

I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is not going to happen. It's going to cause trouble.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.