Becoming Muhammad Ali TV - Jack Newfield - New York Amsterdam News - John Ali - Martin Luther King - Louis Farrakhan - Political Assassination TV - Baba Zak A Kondo - Gene Roberts - Peter Bailey - Malcolm X 1972 - Malcolm X - Michael X: Hustler, Revolutionary, Outlaw TV -
39,346. After the victory then Cassius goes to New York. He is escorted around Harlem by the notorious Malcolm X. And the media has a field day. Speculation is hurling in Harlem that Malcolm X any day now is going to be out of the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X learns that Elijah Mohammad has impregnated several of his secretaries. And he felt deeply betrayed – he felt betrayed as a man, he felt betrayed religiously and ethically and morally by the man he had given his whole heart and trust to. And so he questioned everything including the whole creed of the Nation of Islam and the hypocrisy of it. There were two men who above all others he wanted to pull out of the Nation of Islam with him. One was Louis X, who was the minister in Boston today known as Louis Farrakhan. But the second person he wanted was Cassius Clay. (Boxing & Malcolm X & Nation of Islam) Becoming Muhammad Ali
80,157. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were about to join forces and form a coalition. (Malcolm X & Martin Luther King) Jack Newfield, New York Post
80,158. Malcolm X Flees For Life: Muslim Factions At War. New York Amsterdam News
80,159. Anyone who opposes the Honorable Elijah Muhammad puts their life in jeopardy. John Ali, cited Karl Evanzz
80,162. I met Malcolm X once in Washington, but circumstances didn’t enable me to talk with him for more than a minute. He is very articulate ... but I totally disagree with many of his political and philosophical views – at least insofar as I understand where he now stands. I don’t want to seem to sound self-righteous, or absolutist, or that I think I have the only truth, the only way. Maybe he does have some of the answer. I don’t know how he feels now, but I know that I have often wished that he would talk less of violence, because violence is not going to solve our problem. And in his litany of articulating the despair of the Negro without offering any positive, creative alternative, I feel that Malcolm has done himself and our people a great disservice. Fiery, demagogic oratory in the black ghettos, urging Negroes to arm themselves and prepare to engage in violence, as he has done, can reap nothing but grief. Martin Luther King, interview Playboy January 1965
80,163. The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil foolish talk about his benefactor, Elijah Muhammad. Such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death. (Malcolm X & Nation of Islam) Louis Farrakhan
80,152. Malcolm X’s real name was Malcolm Little. He was born in 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His childhood was tormented: his father, a Baptist minister, already very involved in the Black Liberation Movement, was murdered. (Malcolm X & Nation of Islam & Assassinations: Malcolm X) Political Assassination: Malcolm X
80,153. By the early 1960s the leadership of Elijah Muhammad’s Lost Foundation had grown fat and comfortable. The minister of Harlem’s Temple #7, the spokesman for the Nation, could not shut his eyes to the ethical contradictions nor the corruption that had woven its way into the core of the movement. (Malcolm X & Nation of Islam & Assassinations: Malcolm X) ibid.
80,154. In 1964 following his break with the Nation, the minister performs a pilgrimage to the sacred Mosque in Mecca. He sees multitudes of men and women of all colours and races from all over the Earth united in spirit and purpose. One humanity. One human family worshipping Allah. (Malcolm X & Nation of Islam & Assassinations: Malcolm X) ibid.
80,155. He realised that the black people in the United States were not the only victims of Americanism ... The fight must leave the field of civil rights for the higher field of human rights. (Malcolm X & Assassinations: Malcolm X) ibid.
80,156. There were many things that Malcolm was doing that were deemed subversive. That were deemed threatening. To the United States Government. To the Johnson administration. To Hoover’s mentality. (Malcolm X & Assassinations: Malcolm X) Baba Zak A Kondo, author Unravelling the Assassination of Malcolm X
80,160. The four of us was relieved. We went to the back of the ballroom. We were told to find seats in the audience ... As that meeting was breaking up Malcolm was being introduced. He came on the stage. Two individuals about four or five rows back ... All of a sudden I see three individuals up front pumping shots at Malcolm. And they were moving from Malcolm’s right to the centre aisle. (Malcolm X & Assassinations: Malcolm X) Gene Roberts, Malcolm X bodyguard
80,161. The next thing I heard was shots. I mean many shots. It sounded almost like a battlefield. (Malcolm X & Assassinations: Malcolm X) Peter Bailey
102,940. The injustice that has been inflicted upon Negroes in this country by Uncle Sam is criminal. (Malcolm X & Injustice & Black Culture) Malcolm X, 1972, Malcolm
4,926. We declare our right on this Earth to be a man. To be a human being. To be respected as a human being. To be given the rights of a human being. In this society, on this Earth this day which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary. (Right & Man & Humanity & Black Culture & Malcolm X & United States of America) ibid.
102,941. You’ve got to be realistic, Malcolm. You are a nigger. (Malcolm X & Black Culture) ibid. teacher
39,219. We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us. (Black Culture & Violence & Malcolm X) ibid.
39,221. They are afraid that I will tell the real reason I am out of the Black Muslim movement. (Black Culture & Malcolm X) ibid.
102,943. My house was burned, it was bombed by the Black Muslim movement. (Black Culture & Malcolm X) ibid.
6,795. Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. (Knowledge & Life’s Like That & Truth & Experience & Malcolm X) Malcolm X
49,826. I have never seen democracy – all we’ve seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don’t see any American dream. We’ve experienced only the American nightmare. (Democracy & Hypocrisy & United States of America & Malcolm X & Nightmare) Malcolm X
909. I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. (Truth & Justice & Humanity & Malcolm X) Malcolm X
4,926. We declare our right on this Earth to be a man. To be a human being. To be respected as a human being. To be given the rights of a human being. In this society, on this Earth this day which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary. (Right & Man & Humanity & Black Culture & Malcolm X & United States of America & Malcolm X) Malcolm X
4,459. I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being – neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It’s just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being. (Humanity & Equality & Malcolm X) Malcolm X
6,881. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. (Education & Future & Malcolm X) Malcolm X
29,012. If you’re born in America with a black skin, you’re born in prison. (United States of America & Black Culture & Malcolm X) Malcolm X, interview June 1963
39,113. Abraham Lincoln tricked the so-called Negro into thinking that he was free. He did nothing but trick the Negro, fooled the Negro and used the Negro the same as every other politician. (Racism & Black Culture & Malcolm X & Lincoln) Malcolm X
39,220. I wish nothing but freedom, justice and equality. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people ... I believe the true practice of Islam can remove the cancer of racism from the hearts and the souls of all Americans. (Black Culture & Racism & Islam & Malcolm X) Malcolm X
139,161. In 1965 Malcolm X, the US Civil Rights leader, arrives in the UK on a speaking tour, spreading the message of black liberation. On a visit to the Congress of Black Unity in London, Michael encounters the charismatic revolutionary. (Great Britain & Gangs UK & Malcolm X & Black Culture & Activism & Miscarriages of Justice & Murder) Michael X: Hustler, Revolutionary, Outlaw, Sky Showcase 2021, caption
139,162. He [Malcolm] never went anywhere without his little black case, which a mobile library of statistics ranging from transportation of slaves hundreds of years ago to the latest figures on black poverty. (Great Britain & & Gangs UK & Malcolm X & Black Culture & Activism & Miscarriages of Justice & Murder) ibid. Michael
139,163. Courtaulds Ltd: 900 workers went on strike after a row with the management … ‘The strike as such here involved coloured people.’ (Great Britain & Gangs UK & Malcolm X & Black Culture & Strike & Industrial Action & Protest & Activism & Miscarriages of Justice & Murder) ibid. Malcolm’s BBC interview
139,164. RAAS is one of a growing number of black civil rights organisations that emerge in the 1960s. With Michael at the helm, it soon gains a high profile. By 1967 Michael X is the most high profile black activist in Britain and claims to have some 60,000 followers of his RAS Orgnisation. (Great Britain & & Gangs UK & Malcolm X & Black Culture & Activism & Miscarriages of Justice & Murder) ibid.
139,165. Michael’s high-profile appearances attract the attention of the authorities. Six weeks later, he addresses his next rally under police surveillance. (Great Britain & Gangs UK & Malcolm X & Black Culture & Activism & Miscarriages of Justice & Murder) ibid.
139,179. We were weened on the concept of the empire and the mother-country and we firmly believed this. No more loyal subjects of the king and queen had ever had … To come here and discover we weren’t wanted has been a very shattering blow … It’s not a matter of hate that our people are feeling towards the people of this country, but a very simple emotion like that of a rejected love. (Great Britain & Gangs UK & Malcolm X & Black Culture & Activism & Miscarriages of Justice & Immigration & Rejection & British Empire & Murder) ibid. Michael’s TV interview
139,180. After serving eight months in prison, Michael is released but remains under police surveillance. He immediately persuades his white liberal backers to fund a new venture: the Black House [inc Lennon]. (Great Britain & Gangs UK & Malcolm X & Black Culture & Activism & Miscarriages of Justice & Murder) ibid. caption
139,181. The assault on Marvin Brown gives the Metropolitan police reason to read the Black House. Michael is charged with robbery and extortion. (Great Britain & Gangs UK & Malcolm X & Black Culture & Activism & Miscarriages of Justice & Murder) ibid.
139,182. There is a difference between leadership and demagoguery. (Great Britain & Gangs UK & Malcolm X & Black Culture & Activism & Miscarriages of Justice & Leader & Murder) ibid. professor, re Malcolm X
139,183. In the town of Arima, Michael sets himself up as leader of Christina Gardens – a small agricultural commune centred around his claimed political ethos of self-help. (Great Britain & Gangs UK & Malcolm X & Black Culture & Activism & Miscarriages of Justice & Leader & Murder) ibid. caption
139,184. Michael, alongside two of his followers stands accused of the murder of Joseph Skerritt. If found guilty, the penalty is death by hanging. (Great Britain & Gangs UK & Malcolm X & Black Culture & Activism & Miscarriages of Justice & Murder) ibid.