Brief Biography
Malcolm X is different
from all other activists of the modern, both past and
present . Back before 1964, he was a firm believer of the
seperation of the races. After his voyage to Mecca [19 April 1964],
he changed. The CIA followed him all over his travels to foreign
places, but not Mecca, since non-Muslims are not allowed in
Mecca.
According to his Autobiography, Malcolm X first hears of Elijah
Muhammads adultery as early as 1955. When Malcolm X called the JFK
assassination chicken coming home to roost, he was 100% separated
from the Nation of Islam (NOI). Malcolm X traveled a lot to Europe,
Africa, and Asia making people known of the civil rights
struggle.
He publicly exposed Elijah Muhammads children out of wedlock by at
least 3 secretaries to about 6 women and 6 children [4 June 1964]
at the Audubon Ballroom in NYC and other times. He was the Marcus
Garvey of his time in the 1960s promoting Black Nationalism,
self-defense, etc. He started the OAAU [The Organization of
Afro-American Unity} and began the modern African American
movement.
He also exposed the fact that the KKK and the Nation of Islam
worked together on several occasions to create strife, agitation,
and racial unrest in America for both groups are either Masonic
invented or Masonic controlled. The Masonic FBI and the Masonic
Nation of Islam killed Malcolm X.
The FBI had programs like Operation Choas, COINTELPRO, etc that
infiltrated many civil rights, anti-war, etc groups. But his first
order of business after founding the OAAU was to internationalize
the struggle of Afro-Americans in the United States through a
petition to the United Nations, charging genocide against 22
million black Americans.
As ultimately outlined the petition charged the government of the
United States with economic genocide, mental harm, murder,
conspiracy, and complicity to commit genocide. The petition
declared that in its treatment of Afro-Americans, the U.S.
government had violated not only its own Constitution, but also the
Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, and the 1948 Draft Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
His petition would start a massive revolution in society and he
opposed the war in Vietnam so he died. The assassins of Malcolm X
include Talmage Hayer, Norman 3X Butler, and Thomas 15X Johnson.
All 3 men are members of the Nation of Islam and all were convicted
of first-degree murder in March 1966.
Malcolm X was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.
Louis Farrakhan at that time even said Malcolm was worthy of death.
Farrakhan [the murderer] consented to his death, but Malcolm X
still remained a Muslim till he died. Malcolm X died in [15
February 1965]
Quotes From Articles And Speeches
"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 (Aug. 25 1964).
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one
can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
-- "Prospects for Freedom in 1965," speech, Jan. 7 1965, New York
City (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 12, 1965).
"The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white
liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is
controlled only by God."
-- Speech, Dec. 1, 1963, New York City.
"I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I
don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want
brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm
not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who
doesn't know how to return the treatment."
-- Speech, Dec. 12 1964, New York City.
"There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches
us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if
someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a
good religion."
-- "Message to the Grass Roots," speech, Nov. 1963, Detroit
(published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).
"It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too
black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate
it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in
it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it
becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to
wake you up, now it puts you to sleep."
-- "Message to the Grass Roots," speech, Nov. 1963, Detroit
(published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).
"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must
be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America
doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't
make you an American."
-- "The Ballot or the Bullet," speech, April 3 1964, Cleveland,
Ohio (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 3, 1965).
"If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong
abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and
black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for
America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her.
And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be
violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do
whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this
country."
-- Speech, Nov. 1963, New York City.
Other 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."