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ABOUT MALCOLM X

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Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz,[1] was an American Black Muslim minister and a spokesman for the Nation of Islam!.

After leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964, he made the pilgrimage, the Hajj, to Mecca and became a Sunni Muslim!. He also founded the Muslim Mosque, Inc!. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity!. Less than a year later, he was assassinated in Washington Heights on the first day of National Brotherhood Week!.

Historian Robin D!.G!. Kelley wrote, "Malcolm X has been called many things: Pan-Africanist, father of Black Power, religious fanatic, closet conservative, incipient socialist, and a menace to society!. The meaning of his public life — his politics and ideology — is contested in part because his entire body of work consists of a few dozen speeches and a collaborative autobiography whose veracity is challenged!. Malcolm has become a sort of tabula rasa, or blank slate, on which people of different positions can write their own interpretations of his politics and legacy!. Chuck D of the rap group Public Enemy and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas can both declare Malcolm X their hero!."[2]

In December 1953, a little more than a year after he was paroled from prison, Malcolm was named the minister at the NOI's Boston mosque, Temple No!. 11!. The following year he also became the minister at Temple No!. 12 (Philadelphia) and Temple No!. 7 (New York)!.

Muhammad Speaks, the NOI newspaper, was founded by Malcolm in 1957!.

Beginning in the 1960s, Malcolm was invited to participate in numerous debates, including forums on radio stations (Los Angeles, New York, Washington), television programs ("Open Mind," "The Mike Wallace News Program") and universities (Harvard Law School, Howard University, Columbia University)!.

In 1963, the New York Times reported that Malcolm X was the second most sought after speaker in the United States!.

On June 29, 1963 Malcolm lead the Unity Rally in Harlem!. It was one of the nations largest civil rights events!.

After befriending and ministering to boxer Cassius Clay, the boxer decides to convert to the Muslim religion and join the Nation of Islam!. In February 1964, Clay announces he has changed his name to Muhammad Ali!.

In March 1964, after his split with the NOI, Malcolm forms the Muslim Mosque, Inc!. Several months later, he also organizes the Organizations of Afro-American Unity (OAAU)!.

Malcolm's autobiography, which he worked on for two years with writer Alex Haley, was published in November 1965!.

QUOTES BY MALCOLM X

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything!."

"We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us!."

"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast!. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today!."

"My alma mater was books, a good library!.!.!. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity!."

"Stumbling is not falling!."

"There is no better than adversity!. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time!."

"They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want!."

"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us!."

"Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks!."

"A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself!."

"I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action!."

"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary!."

"I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control!. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself!. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad!. Now I think with my own mind, sir!"

"The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in the divinity of Elijah Muhammad!. We believed in him!. We actually believed that God, in Detroit by the way, that God had taught him and all of that!. I always believed that he believed in himself!. And I was shocked when I found out that he himself didn't believe it!."

"I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing!. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation!."

"It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood!. That's the only thing that can save this country!."
-- February 19, 1965 (2 days before he was murdered by Nation of Islam followers)

"Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world!."

"!.!.!.I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did!."
-- on those he encouraged to follow Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad

"When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom!. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom!. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire !. !. !. or preserve his freedom!."

"You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom!. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being!."

"Dr!. King wants the same thing I want!. Freedom!."

"I want Dr!. King to know that I didn't come to Selma to make his job difficult!. I really did come thinking I could make it easier!. If the white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr!. King!."
-- in a conversation with Mrs!. Coretta Scott King!.

"I am not a racist!. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination!. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

in a simple short answer; He tried to keep blacks and white separated, he believed in matching violence with violence until he converted to Islam then he started to preaching that blacks and white should be mixed!. He was a black separatist!. He believed all blacks should go to Africa and convert to Islam as well!.

quotes
"By any means necessary"
"We didn 't land on Plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us"

and the third on is up to you ha ha
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