Malcolm X Quotes About Middle Class

Quotes about: Middle Class

• I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Class, White

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

• And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago.

  Malcolm X

  Years, Class, Four

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

• That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting these so-called middle-class values, standards, it's not that they are taking something from the white man, but they are probably identifying again with the level or standard that these same whites have gotten from them back during that period.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Class

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

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