Malcolm X
Malcolm X was born in Omaha on May 19,1925, the son of a Baptist preacher. At an early age he moved to Lancing, Michigan, with his parents, both of which were lost to him in childhood. Leaving school early, he made his way to New York and worked for a time as a waiter in Harlem. Soon he was part of the underworld and began to sell marijuana and eventually became addicted to cocaine. Malcolm's next step was when he turned to burglary and in 1946 he was sentenced to a ten-year imprisonment. While in prison he became acquainted with Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslim sect and was converted to its utopian and strongly racist point of view. Paroled in 1952, he became an outspoken defender of Muslim doctrines and, unlike Muhammad, sought and received considerable publicity. In 1963 Muhammad dismissed him from the Black Muslim movement, and Malcolm formed his own protest group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). Ma
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary. (Official Site of Malcolm X) The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights that America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans. ("Racism: the Cancer that is Destroying America," in Egyptian Gazette) It doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time, I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence. (Black History Page) Any religion that does not take into consideration the freedom and the rights of the black man is the wrong religion. But politics as such is not the solution. But the divine solution wo
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