Malcolm X Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

  Malcolm X

  Inspiring, Memories, Men

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

• I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Sleep, Night

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.395, Ballantine Books

• Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Doors, White Man

• Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.

  Malcolm X

  Communication, Understanding, Language

• In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of his own, a God of his own, a language of his own. Most of all he must have love and devotion for his own kind.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Order, Land

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!

  Malcolm X

  Years, Land, America

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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