Top 96 Quotes by Malcolm X

About Malcolm X

These are some quotes by American author Malcolm X Activist, who lived between May 19, 1925 and February 21, 1965.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.

Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.

Malcolm X

History proves that the white man is a devil.

History proves that the white man is a devil.

Malcolm X

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

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

Malcolm X

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.

Malcolm X

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.

Malcolm X

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

Malcolm X

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

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

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

Malcolm X

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