Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Muslim Minister
Political Activist
Politician
Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
Hear
Leadership
Crumbs
Existence
Depends
Subsidies
Talk
Doors
Negro
Upon
Behinds
Table
White
Behind
Tables
Language
Position
Leaders
Different
Wants
Door
Men
Leader
Whose
Subsidy

More quotes by Malcolm X

Image
It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
Malcolm X
Image
We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are within our rights to protect themselves by whatever means necessary.
Malcolm X
Image
I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.
Malcolm X
Image
Solve the race problem here, and once you solve the race problem here, you don't have to send these billions of dollars abroad.
Malcolm X
Image
America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like.
Malcolm X
Image
My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.
Malcolm X
Image
Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.
Malcolm X
Image
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
Malcolm X
Image
I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
Malcolm X
Image
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
Malcolm X
Image
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Malcolm X
Image
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
Image
When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability.
Malcolm X
Image
When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going to be detrimental to all of them, they'll keep that, perhaps they'll then take the necessary steps to keep their fellow snakes away from my chickens or away from my children if the responsibility is placed upon them.
Malcolm X
Image
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.
Malcolm X
Image
No black person married to a white person can speak for me!
Malcolm X
Image
Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.
Malcolm X
Image
When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.
Malcolm X
Image
I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.
Malcolm X
Image
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community no more.
Malcolm X