Malcolm X

"You can't have capitalism without racism."

"They ask, 'What about integration?' That which is not natural cannot be forced."

"I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing."

"You're not going to integrate with people who don't want to integrate with you."

"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace."

"The only thing I like integrated is coffee."

"If you want to know about an animal, you have to go live where that animal lives."

"It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood."

"You can't teach what you don't know. You can't lead where you don't go."

"We need to stop singing and start swinging."

"The worst crime the white man has committed is to teach us to hate ourselves."

"Every nationalist movement on the earth, when it has a flag, has a means of saving face."

"I live like a man who's already dead."

"So you'll accept a job that a dog won't take, and still think you've made it."

"The black man in the ghetto must be made to understand that he is not inferior."

"Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor."

"You haven't even begun to imagine the chaos that will result from putting a man on the moon."

"The economic philosophy of black nationalism is the philosophy of self-sufficiency."

"You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself."

"I believe we should separate because integration is impossible."

"They're not going to count the votes. I'm not going to vote anyway."

"I feel like a man who watched his house burn down. I must rebuild."

"Read everything they write about yourself, study it, analyze it."

"The black man needs this to understand the futility of appealing to the white man's sense of justice."

"Any time you live in a society where you are not respected, you have a right to resort to any means."

"The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian America has been robbed of his identity."

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

"As long as you are not free, your freedom is an illusion."

"America needs to understand Islam because this is the one religion that erases from its society the problems of racism."

"The black man should seize the time, now, to work toward nation building."