Malcolm X Quotes About Diversity

Quotes about: Diversity

• When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Mean, Justice

• When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you...when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're green, when you die you're grey and you dare call me coloured.

  Malcolm X

  Growing Up, Blue, White

• 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.

• I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

  Malcolm X

  Friendship, Believe, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". Speech in New York City, www.imdb.com. December 12, 1964.

• One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, People, Justice

• Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, White, Justice

• Growing is the result of learning.

  Malcolm X

  Justice, Diversity, Growing

• The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that twenty-two million Black people have not risen up against their oppressors in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria and even by the democratic traditions.

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Men, Hands

• My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Color, Racism

• We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Justice, Diversity

• The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

  Malcolm X

  Justice, Diversity, Asking

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.374, Ballantine Books

• We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

  Malcolm X

  Rocks, Land, Diversity

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