"Integration will not bring a man back..." - Quote by Malcolm X
Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
More by Malcolm X
“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
“The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house slave said, well one of these days all of us will live in the plantation, they said, uh huh. They went along with him. But if you came up to them and said, let's go, they would be gone just like that.And in, in America you have the same situation.You have the vast masses who are still slaves.”
“If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.”
More on Integration
“It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.”
“I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.”
“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.”
More on Racism
“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.”
“You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months.”
“Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?”