Malcolm X Quotes About Prisons

Quotes about: Prisons

• I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

  Malcolm X

  Education, Reading, Long

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

• The religious philosophy that they had adopted, in my opinion, was the only thing and is the only thing that can remove the white from the mind of the white man and the negro from the mind of the negro. I have seen what Islam has done with our people, our people who had this feeling of negro - and it had a psychological effect of putting them in a mental prison.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Philosophy, Men

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

• I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

  Malcolm X

  Appreciation, Freedom, Believe

• What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

  Malcolm X

  Taught, Prison, Type

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

• At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Islam, Connections

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

• When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Mean, America

• It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

  Malcolm X

  Appreciation, Slavery, Prison

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.386, Ballantine Books

• [People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.

  Malcolm X

  Dope, People, Inmates

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.

  Malcolm X

  America, People, Black

• I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion.

  Malcolm X

  New York, Trying, Green

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

  Malcolm X

  Atheist, Believe, Prison

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

• While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim.

  Malcolm X

  Evil, Vices, Prison

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

• The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Way, Prison

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

  Malcolm X

  Inmates, Prison, Propaganda

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

  Malcolm X

  People, Prison

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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