Malcolm X Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Fighting, Intelligent

• I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Freedom, Believe

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

• Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each other just because we believe in different methods, or tactics, or strategy. We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

  Malcolm X

  Mistake, Believe, Fall

• Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its hum an rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you ? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made.

  Malcolm X

  Wall, Mistake, Teenager

• 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

• They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Men, White Man

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.211, Ballantine Books

• His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master’s house out than the master himself would. But then you had another Negro out in the field. The house Negro was in the minority. The masses—the field Negroes were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he’d die. If his house caught on fire, they'd pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze.

  Malcolm X

  Hurt, Pain, Fighting

  Malcolm X (1989). “Malcolm X: The Last Speeches”, Pathfinder Press

• 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

• Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Mean

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• 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

• If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How can people, a group of people, such as our people, who own no factories, have equal job opportunities competing against the race that owns the factories?The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Jobs, Fighting

• Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Men, Battle

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

• 10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all over this earth, the black man would be fighting for what he knows is his by right, but the movement on the part of [Martin Luther] King and the others had done nothing but slow down the militancy that is inherent in the nature of the black man.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Fighting, Men

• I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Men, People

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

• Why must I run against a Negro? We have had enough of Negroes running against and fighting with each other. The better bet is that we would put a Muslim candidate in the field against a devil, somebody who is against all we stand for.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Fighting, Devil

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or passively. It's only when they are so-called "fighting for the rights of Negroes" that they nonviolently, passively, and lovingly, you know, approach the situation.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Rights, White

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom, there are many whites who will fight on his side with him.

  Malcolm X

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

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

• Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and the position of the Afro- American or negro in American history. [He] has done a remarkable job in fighting for rights of black people in this country. On the other hand, he probably hasn't done as much as he could or as much as he should because he is the most independent negro politician in this country.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Jobs, Independent

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

• Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of stuff when they want to draft you and put you in the army and send you to Saigon to fight for them -- and then you've got to turn around and all night long discuss how you're going to just get a right to register and vote without being murdered. Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!

  Malcolm X

  Country, Army, Fighting

• All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Fighting, Feelings

• Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black man even started in that direction, which is a mature step and it's the only way to really solve this problem and to prove that he is the intellectual equal of others, why, the racists and the segregationists would fight that harder than they're fighting the present efforts to integrate.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Fighting, Men

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

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