Malcolm X Quotes

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

White folk done took this country. You're in their home, and they're gonna let you know it.You are not now, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be a brother to white folk and if you do not realize that, you are in serious trouble.

Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."

I don’t believe in Black majority rule ever—not even in 1000 years.

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

America is a white man's country.

The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

History proves that the white man is a devil.

We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.

It is impossible for white men to live with the coloured races without adopting a conviction that…they have the right to command the services of the less civilized.

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.

The white man believes in equality, but apparently believes the white man is more equal than the Indian.

Whites don’t like to see the nigger with too much … White people was afraid that money will make the nigger act like his own man.

The United States was created for white people …. When a negro has learned to read, he ceases to work.

It is really my opinion that the whole race would be harmless and peaceable if they were not put upon by the whites.