"I won't permit you to call it hate.

Let's say I'm going to create an awareness of what has been done to them. This awareness will produce an energy, both negative and positive, than can then be channeled constructively...

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

Miss Nadie: Wake them up to their exploitation?

Malcolm: No, to their humanity, to their own worth, and to their heritage. The biggest difference between the parallel oppression of the Jew and the Negro is that the Jew never lost his pride in being a Jew. He never ceased to be a man. He knew he had made a significant contribution to the world, and his sense of his own value gave him the courage to fight back. It enabled him to act and think independently, unlike our people and our leaders.

From Marlene Nadie's article, Village Voice, February 25, 1965

-Malcolm X Speaks, p. 198