Malcolm X Quotes About Opportunity

Quotes about: Opportunity

• As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the school system is in the hands of the whites, you have a situation where the blacks are constantly begging the whites can they use this or can they use that. That's not any kind of equality of opportunity, nor does it lend toward one's dignity.

  Malcolm X

  School, Opportunity, Hands

• The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

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  Jobs, Opportunity, Two

• Only in this form of separation the black man is exploited. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

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  Men, Opportunity, White

• If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry that provides job opportunities and educational opportunities for black people, then if the black man, the black leadership, who has access to all of this money and has all of these degrees today, can't use his talent and his know-how to set up business opportunities, job opportunities, housing opportunities for the black people the same as the white leaders have done for white people, then these black leaders need to get off the boat.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Educational, Opportunity

• We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right. And all we're asking for is an opportunity to do something for ourselves, rather than to sit around as a beggar, begging for jobs and begging for education from - for someone else for the rest of our lives.

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  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

• I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.

  Malcolm X

  Opportunity, Thinking, Middle

• 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.

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  Kings, Jobs, Fighting

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