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. Malcolm X cheeknonviolentpeaceful Change image and share on social
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. Malcolm X audacityblackblood Change image and share on social
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca. Malcolm X blesscityholy Change image and share on social
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem. Malcolm X educationfightgood share on social
Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom. Malcolm X blackbottombrazil Change image and share on social
When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity. Malcolm X americaamericancomplicate share on social
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. Malcolm X americaattitudeconsider share on social
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. Malcolm X oppressoppressionpeople Change image and share on social
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X almabookcuriosity Change image and share on social