The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Author: Malcolm X, Alex Haley Category: Autobiography Language: English File Size: 2.1 MB Tags: African American | autobiography | Biography | Classics | History | Memoir | Nonfiction | Politics | Race |
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley, is a spiritual conversion narrative that outlines his philosophy of black pride, black nationalism, and pan-Africanism.He was a minister, a leader in the civil rights movement and a supporter of Black nationalism.
Famous Quotes:
“I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.”
“In all my years in the streets, I’d been looking at the exploitation that for the first time I really saw and understood.”
“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
“It isn’t the American white man who is a racist, but it’s the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.”
“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.”
“America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.”
“I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things.”
“It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.”
“I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda.…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.”
“And that was how, after twelve years of never thinking for as much as five minutes about myself, I became able finally to muster the nerve, and the strength, to start facing the facts, to think for myself.”
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