Malcolm X Quotes About Attitude

Quotes about: Attitude

• 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

  Attitude, Race, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.347, Ballantine Books

• Whenever any black man in america shows signs of an uncompromising attitude, against the injustices that he experiences daily, and shows no tendency whatsoever to compromise with it, then the American press [characterizes him] as a radical, as an extremist someone who's irresponsible, or as a rabble rouser or someone who doesn't rationalize in dealing with the problem.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Men, America

• Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Philosophy, Thinking

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

• To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Understanding, Identity

  "The Concept of Self: A Study of Black Identity and Self-esteem". Book by Richard L. Allen, p. 20, 2001.

• 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."

  Malcolm X

  Country, Attitude, Teaching

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions.

  Malcolm X

  Morning, Attitude, Mean

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.341, Ballantine Books

• [White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't even give the basic human rights to over twenty-two million of its citizens. This is aud-, this is, this takes audacity; this takes nerve. So it is this attitude today that's causing the Americans to be condemned.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Attitude, Men

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• ... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Attitude, Weakness

• Many of them who belong to these countries that were former colonial powers have racist attitudes, but their racist attitude is never displayed to the degree that the America's attitude of racism is displayed. Never.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Attitude, America

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

• Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Race, Hypocritical

• In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Heart, Order

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Attitude, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.391, Ballantine Books

• By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this creates within them an attitude that is different from the attitude of the white that you meet here in America, and it was in Mecca that I realized that white is actually an attitude more so than it's a color.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Color, White

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

• White is an attitude.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, White

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

• Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Men, Ideas

• It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Eye, Dark

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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