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
This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind.
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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.