Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and later also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth19 May 1925
CityOmaha, NE
CountryUnited States of America
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.
The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance'! White people seem to think the black ought to be shouting 'hallelujah'! Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back - and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!
You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.
Stumbling is not falling.
What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.