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February 23, 2017, 3:54am
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Re: Malcolm-X: What can we learn from him today?
Thanks for sharing!
Here are some of my favourite quotes by him:
“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
“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.”
“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
“The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba – yes Cuba too.”
I’ve always wanted to visit his mosque in NY too, I wonder how it is. These guys will always be an inspiration for young activists. It’s never easy, but always worth it.
Thanks for sharing such amazing quotes. Yes the whole area, MalcomX blvd in Harlem and his masjid in the corner are all historic.
Now as I was reading he was assassinated after he left ‘Nation of Islam’ and visited Mecca and most likely the assassin was one of his own ex-“brother”. How sad!
NYtimes did a review of it and you must look at this link, its just feels so real:
The civil rights leader Malcolm X was killed Feb. 21, 1965, at a rally in New York City. Hear from a witness and visit the site of the assassination — in the past, present and in 360 video.