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
Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.
[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready.
We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".
I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected
One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.
I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.
I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.
As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.
If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.
By any means necessary.
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.
There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.