All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
Category Archive: Malcolm X
My black brothers and sisters – of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs – we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!
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.
If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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.
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
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.
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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.