MALCOLM X: Muhammad Ali is My Friend and My Brother.
Muhammad Ali speaks on the influence of the Nation of Islam on his career. He fully credits his conversion to Islam as the reason why he was able to win the heavyweight championship of the world.
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MALCOLM X: Kennedy Fiddles While Birmingham is Burning.
Malcolm X explains that JFK is a trickster, he tricked the people who put him in office.
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MALCOLM X: If You Stick a Knife in My Back Nine Inches.”If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. They haven’t even begun to pull the knife out. They won’t even admit the knife is there.
MALCOLM X: The Price of Freedom is Death.
Malcolm X explains that no negro leaders have fought for civil rights, they have begged for civil rights. And as long as you beg another man to set you free, you’ll never be free. Freedom is something you have to do for yourself. Malcolm X rejected the non-violent doctrine of Martin Luther King.
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MALCOLM X: Let Him Know The Hell You’ve Been Catching.
Rejecting the approach of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X explains: “I, for one, as a Muslim believe that the white man is intelligent enough, if he were made to realize how black people really feel and how fed up we are without that old compromising sweet talk…why you’re the one who makes it hard for yourself. The white man believes you when you go to him with that old sweet talk, ’cause you’ve been sweet-talking him ever since he brought you here. Stop sweet-talking him. Tell him how you feel. Tell him what kind of hell you’ve been catching and let him know that if he’s not ready to clean his house up, if he’s not ready to clean his house up, he shouldn’t have a house. It should catch on fire, and burn down.”
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MALCOLM X: We Must Bring the U.S. to the United Nations.
“African nations and Asian nations and Latin American nations look very hypocritical when they stand up in the United Nations, condemning the racist practices of South Africa and that which is practiced by Portugal and Angola, and saying nothing in the U.N. about the racist practices that are manifest every day against Negroes in this society.”
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MALCOLM X: Islam Can Help Erase Racism in America.
“When I was on the pilgrimage, I had close contact with Muslims whose skin would in America be classified as white and with Muslims who would themselves be classified as white in America, but these particular Muslims didn’t call themselves white. They looked upon themselves as human beings, as part of the human family and therefore they looked upon all other segments of the human family as part of that same family. Now, they had a different look or a different air or a different attitude than that which is reflected in the attitude of the man in America who calls himself white. So I said that if Islam had done this– done that for them, perhaps if the white men in America would study Islam, perhaps it could do the same thing for him.”
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