The religious philosophy that they had adopted, in my opinion, was the only thing and is the only thing that can remove the white from the mind of the white man and the negro from the mind of the negro. I have seen what Islam has done with our people, our people who had this feeling of negro - and it had a psychological effect of putting them in a mental prison.
Malcolm XThe Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.
Malcolm XWhen we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
Malcolm XThe White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
Malcolm X