Malcolm X Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, Lynching

• When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.

  Malcolm X

  People, Devil, Criminals

  Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 171), 2013.

• To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

  Malcolm X

  Criminals, Crime, Disgrace

• I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Brutality, Crime

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.373, Ballantine Books

• 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.

• When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with "hate". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of "hatred"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Book, Men

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.388, Ballantine Books

• Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Fighting, Rights

• The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to protect ourselves, then it's the government that should be charged with the crime, because we're only upholding a law that they've been unable to uphold.

  Malcolm X

  Government, Law, Long

• Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Race, White

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

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