Malcolm X Quotes About Segregation

Quotes about: Segregation

• I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

  Malcolm X

  Respect, Believe, Color

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

• America preaches integration and practices segregation.

  Malcolm X

  Practice, America, Segregation

  Malcolm X (1992). “Malcolm X Speaks Out”, Andrews McMeel Pub

• The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference, they don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa practices and preaches the same thing.

  Malcolm X

  Practice, Differences, America

• If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate us, we'd see some action. Talk is cheap, if white people didn't want to have a South African situation ... there'd be none. If white people in America didn't want segregation, there'd be none ... it is the man who allows him to lynch who is never seen.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, White

• Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it.

  Malcolm X

  Dog, Men, Jail

• We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Two, Liberty

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

• By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. If I have children and they live in my house, I care for them, they're dependent upon me. And their dependence upon me puts me in a position to regulate their lives, control their lives, tell them where to go, where they can't go. That's a form of segregation.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Two, Differences

• My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Color, Racism

• We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything.

  Malcolm X

  Civil Rights, Separation, Segregation

  "Malcolm X: The Last Speeches".

• White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts are designed to eliminate this, that or, or the next thing but, yet, it is never eliminated is in no way impressive to me.

  Malcolm X

  White, Jail, People

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

  Malcolm X

  Two, Done, Separation

• If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Black, Recognition

• Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Men, White Man

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

• I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Racist, Discrimination

  Malcolm X (1992). “February 1965: the final speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

• Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per - as a person has not committed any of the deeds that has produced the plight that the negro finds himself in, is he guiltless? The only way you can determine that is, take the negro child who's only four-years-old. Can he escape, though he's only four years old, can he escape the stigma of discrimination and segregation? He's only four-years-old.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Years, White

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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