Malcolm X Quotes
I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That if you go outside of New York City, Dr. [Martin Luther] King is known to 90 percent of the Negroes in the United States and is respected and, and is identified more or less with him, at least as a hero of one kind or another. That the Black Muslim, outside of one or two communities like New York, are unknown.
X, Malcolm. Interview by Robert Penn Warren. Who Speaks for the Negro?, 2 June 1964, Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
The planning and management of the March on Washington of 1963 was dominated by well educated and/or very experienced leaders of Middle Class type institutions—churches, labor unions, governments, educational institutions, and even middle class entertainment. A few Black critics felt that the deep South Black Sharecroppers were not well represented, intellectually or culturally. To many this was the great genius of the March on Washington where there were a hundred million Americans prepared to find great fault with the march and what they saw was a reflection of themselves trying to protest a grievance.
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam.
