Malcolm X Quotes
We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything.
X, Malcolm. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements. Edited by George Breitman, Merit Publishers, 1965.
He was arrested and renditioned to Pakistan a few hours later. Nonetheless, the secession succeeded and Bangladesh became an independent country.
He was describing the Russian peasant in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, however it applied to the peasants of many countries of Europe. He was explaining why the Communist revolutionary government in Russia was not getting enthusiastic cooperation from the peasants when the government was trying to “help” them. Immediately after the Russian Revolution, the provisional government appointed him as Ambassador to the United States. However, the provisional government was supplanted when the Bolsheviks took over. Not enamored of Communism, he stayed in the United States with many other Russian refugees.
Howe was as close a political advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt as any president had ever had. He had been with Roosevelt in his early political days and stayed with him even when Roosevelt’s polio appeared to have ended his political career. It was Howe who persuaded FDR and his friends and family that he could re-enter politics even with the polio. Few believed it was possible, but between Howe and FDR, they did what was perceived as the impossible. Presidential assistant Harry Hopkins picked up much of the slack and became even closer to FDR than Howe had been.
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.
