Malcolm X Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, Lynching

• 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

• They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.

  Malcolm X

  Practice, Differences, America

• Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Needs, Slavery

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, 1965.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!

  Malcolm X

  Years, Land, America

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Uncles, Kings

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you see how the white man today has changed his tactics, but he still occupies the same position, in that same context you find Uncle Tom. He has changed his tactics but he still occupies the same position.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Men, White Man

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