"I don't think you can having an..." - Quote by Malcolm X
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.
More by Malcolm X
“I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need.”
“I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.”
“No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!”
More on Dignity
“No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.”
“Objects of charity are not guests.”
“Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.”
More on Integration
“The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!”
“Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.”
“Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.”