Malcolm X Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Racism, Gun Control

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book by George Breitman (p. 22), 1965.

• If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Baby, Children

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

• I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, Black

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.374, Ballantine Books

• I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I'm also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Mean, People

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

• I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

  Malcolm X

  Self, Defense, Violence

  Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

• I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk.

  Malcolm X

  Ku Klux Klan, White, Talking

• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  Malcolm X

  Work, Long, Violence

• The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to protect ourselves, then it's the government that should be charged with the crime, because we're only upholding a law that they've been unable to uphold.

  Malcolm X

  Government, Law, Long

• It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

  Malcolm X

  Dying, Done, Violence

  1965 The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

• I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Toes, Violence

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.431, Ballantine Books

• They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."

  Malcolm X

  Teacher, Lying, Justice

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Alex Haley and Malcolm X, 1965.

• The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White, America

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Men, Odds

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.

  Malcolm X

  Lying, Justice, Violence

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.373, Ballantine Books

• I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Mean, Insane

  "The Ballot or The Bullet". Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, April 3, 1964.

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