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Malcolm X — Portrait after a picture by Marion S. Trikosko (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Malcolm X

American Black rights activist

1925–1965

26 quotes, most often on Freedom, Race and America.

Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.
Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
- America
I’m not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate.
Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
- America
- Race
We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us.
Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964)
- America
- Race
I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the 22 million black people who are the victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy.
Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)

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