Malcolm X Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

  Malcolm X

  Father, Real, Names

• The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.

  Malcolm X

  Real, Taken, Names

• An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

  Malcolm X

  Coffee, Slave Labor, Years

  Malcolm X, Benjamin Karim (1971). “The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches”, p.147, Arcade Publishing

• They're not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they're using their positions and their education and their talent to exploit our people worse than the slave master did during slavery.

  Malcolm X

  People, Independence, Slavery

• All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave and the field slave. The house slave was the one who believed in the master, who had confidence in the master and usually was very friendly with the master. And usually he was also used by the master to try and keep the other slaves pacified.

  Malcolm X

  Two, House, Trying

• The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house slave said, well one of these days all of us will live in the plantation, they said, uh huh. They went along with him. But if you came up to them and said, let's go, they would be gone just like that.And in, in America you have the same situation.You have the vast masses who are still slaves.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, America, House

• The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

  Malcolm X

  House, Trying, Slave

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind.

  Malcolm X

  Drawing, Trying, Want

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.

  Malcolm X

  Citizens, Slave, Ifs

• How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims.

  Malcolm X

  Son, Differences, Leader

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

  Malcolm X

  Slave Labor, Years, African American

• The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. And at no time did Moses in the Bible ever try and integrate the Hebrews into the Egyptian society or accept any hypocritical offers made by the slave master of that day.

  Malcolm X

  Men, America, Black

• I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

  Malcolm X

  Slave, Said, Abraham

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man, has found it impossible to bring about integration, other than toke on a ta - other than on a token basis, and which proves that the, the two of us, the ex-slave and the master, can't live in the same house as equals.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Two, White

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