What was Malcolm X's version of the American Dream?

Malcolm X didn't believe in the American Dream: You and I, we've never seen any democracy. We ain't seen no democracy in the cotton fields of Georgia. That wasn't no democracy down there. We didn't see any democracy on the streets of Harlem and the streets of Brooklyn and the streets of Detroit and Chicago. read more

We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare. Malcolm X recognized that to speak of the American Dream was nothing more than a bald hypocrisy in a country that denied basic humanity to large masses of its citizens based on their skin color. read more

Malcolm X's vision was of a world of universal brotherhood in which each person would be respected and loved as a citizen and as a child of God. He was opposed to racism, to capitalism and all its evil manifestations in the world, to male supremacy, and to religious intolerance. read more

So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver - no, not I. I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare. read more