Malcolm X
Born: 01-01-1925
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little in 1925, was a prominent African American leader and human rights activist. He played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement, advocating for black empowerment and racial justice. As a key figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X's powerful speeches and writings challenged racial inequality. His autobiography, co-authored with Alex Haley, remains a seminal work in understanding his life and legacy.
Book summaries for books written by Malcolm X
Quotes
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
My alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against.
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life.