Quotes from Malcolm X

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.

The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive.

The only thing power respects, is power.

It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the power of the dollar.

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!

My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.

We believe in one God. We believe Muhammad is the Apostle of God.

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

I find it difficult [to believe] that... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or... hatred, because their own history and... teachings are filled with it.

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.