White Quotes - Page 13

• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching the black man, you're a human man.All you have to do is dignify yourself. You don't have to wait for any white man to recognize you. Recognize yourself. Love each other. Practice harmony and brotherhood among your own kind.

  Malcolm X

  Teaching, Men, White Man

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• I'm inclined to believe that most Negro leaders, professional Negroes are professional Negroes. Being a Negro is their professional, and being a profe - a leader is their profession. And usually they say exactly what the white man wants - wants to hear them say.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Men, White Man

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• [ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, White Man

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• Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Doors, White Man

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• Whoever is standing up telling the white man that his position is unjust and that the black people should not have to wait for any Supreme Court, Congress or Senate to legislate, or even the president to issue any kind of - of a proclamation to better the condition of our people, if a N - if he - if a, if a Negro leader is standing up, making that point clear, then he's all right with us.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Issues

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• As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and wait for him to correct these conditions, he is - he is misrepresenting the thinking of the black masses, and he's doing the white man a disservice because he's making the white man be more complacent than he would be if he knew the dangerous situation that is building up right inside his own house.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Dangerous Situations

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• The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Tongue

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• America is a white man's country.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Men, White Man

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• The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality.

  Malcolm X

  Baby, War, Men

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• No black person married to a white person can speak for me!

  Malcolm X

  Black, Married, Speak

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• History rewards all research. And history fails to record one single instance in which the white man - as a people - did good. They have always been devils; they always will be devils, and they are about to be destroyed. The final proof that they are devils lies in the fact that they are about to destroy themselves. Only a devil - and a stupid devil at that - would destroy himself!

  Malcolm X

  Lying, Stupid, Men

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Once the white man let the Negro get an education, the Negro began to want what the white man has. But he let Negroes get an education and now they are demanding integration; they want to have exactly what he has. And the white man is not going to give it to them!

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Giving

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• It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

  Malcolm X

  School, Army, Rocks

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• You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, House

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• It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Black

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• The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Devil

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• The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Men, White Man

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• The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Men, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Land

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Devil

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• The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours. Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Then he put us in chains and put us aboard the "Good Ship Jesus," and we have lived in hell ever since.

  Malcolm X

  Jesus, Men, Europe

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Years

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Opportunity, Two

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• What does a black man look like begging for a cup of coffee in a white restaurant, and doesn't have a job to back up his - to pay for it when, when - when he does get the coffee? It's putting the cart before the horse.

  Malcolm X

  Horse, Jobs, Coffee

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• Instead of the Negro leaders having the black man begging for a chance to - to dine in white restaurants, the Negro leader should be showing the black man how to do something to strengthen his own economy.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Dine In, Leader

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