Quotes from Malcolm X

The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.

The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

How can anyone be against love?

Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.

The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.

When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.

History proves that the white man is a devil.

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.