Malcolm X Quotes About Civil Rights

Quotes about: Civil Rights

• Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

  Malcolm X

  Truth, Racism, Hajj

  "Malcolm X Speaks". Book by George Breitman, 1965.

• American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.

  Malcolm X

  Past, Rights, Lynching

• The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.

  Malcolm X

  America, Rights, Justice

  "Racism: the Cancer that is Destroying America", Egyptian Gazette, August 25, 1964.

• We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Rights, Facts

• I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

  Malcolm X

  Dream, Eye, America

  "The Ballot or the Bullet". Malcolm X's Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, teachingamericanhistory.org. April 3, 1964.

• Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Government, People

  "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.

• You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Tree, Humans

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

• Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of rights that you can think of, when it comes to defending himself, black people - we should have the right to defend ourselves also.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Rights

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting 'hallelujah's Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back — and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!

  Malcolm X

  Grateful, Men, Thinking

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

• When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Uncles, Struggle

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

• We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything.

  Malcolm X

  Civil Rights, Separation, Segregation

  "Malcolm X: The Last Speeches".

• If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.

  Malcolm X

  Army, Black, Liberty

• No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Black

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.252, Ballantine Books

• All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

  Malcolm X

  Moving, Past, Rights

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Blood, Done

• We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We don't feel that in 1964, living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom, and supposedly the leader of the free world, we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a President from Texas in Washington, D.C., to make up their minds that our people are due now some degree of civil rights. No, we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Malcolm X (1992). “By Any Means Necessary”, Pathfinder Press (NY)

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