The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
Malcolm X Quotes
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.
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| Birth: | 19th May, 1925 |
| Death: | 21st February, 1965 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Activist, Politician |
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Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.
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