Wednesday Thought: Malcolm X

On 21st February 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated. He, like Martin Luther King was an outspoken exponent of civil rights for African Americans. Unlike MLK he was not opposed to using violence to achieve his goals.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

and his last words...

"....cool it brothers!"

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