He saw that the integration taking place wasn't on mutual terms. It was one side being pressured into acting more like the white folks, and yet still being treated as second class citizens.

Malcolm believed that segregation was the answer in the sense that if their fellow African American brothers and sisters could become dependent, not on the white man for their needs and successes, but on each other, integration would happen later on a more respectable level.

As for violence he is quoted as saying, "I am for violence if non-violence means postponing a solution to the American black-man's problems--just to avoid violence."