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 XBy looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this creates within them an attitude that is different from the attitude of the white that you meet here in America, and it was in Mecca that I realized that white is actually an attitude more so than it's a color.
Malcolm XNegroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.
Malcolm XA new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.
Malcolm XIf [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.
Malcolm XWhen you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to learn how to improve himself. Negro leaders resent this being said, not because they don't know that it's true, but they're thinking, they're looking at it personally. They think that the implication is directed even at them, and that they, and they duck this responsibility.
Malcolm X