Malcolm X Quotes About Goals

Quotes about: Goals

• The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

  Malcolm X

  Mistake, Sleep, People

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

• 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.

• The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for four hundred years, by lulling them to sleep and making them forget what those whites have done to them, but the masses of black people today don't go for what Martin Luther King is putting down.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Sleep, Years

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Mean, Goal

• That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Men, America

• Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.

  Malcolm X

  Goal, Leader, Done

• The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

  Malcolm X

  Men, America, Goal

• Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Men, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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