Malcolm was born in 1924 in Nebraska. As a child, he dropped out of school and eventually went to prison. While there, he studied the Nation of Islam, and when he left jail, changed his name to Malcolm X. In 1964, Malcolm formed the Organization of the Afro-American Unity and continued with his fight against racism until his assassination a year later in 1965.

It doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time, I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.

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

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.