“Martin Luther King, Malcolm X as Prof X and Magneto” by Dave Wachter
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys a community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and 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 even call it violence when it’s self-defense, I call it intelligence.
- Malcolm X
I have aspired to be any one of these men at some point during my life.
(via nakedsushi)
Now the black civilization that shook the white man up the most was the Egyptian civilization, and it was a Black civilization. It was along the banks of the Nile which runs through the heart of Africa. But again this tricky white man, and he’s tricky - and mind you again, when I say this, it’s not a racist statement. Some of them might not be tricky, but all of them I’ve met are tricky. And his civilization shows his trickiness. This tricky white man was able to take the Egyptian civilization, write books about it, put pictures in those books, make movies for television and theater - so skillfully that he has even convinced other white people that the ancient Egyptians were white themselves.
- Malcolm X
The pyramid, as the white scientists admit, is constructed in such a position on this earth to show that the black people who were the architects of it had a knowledge of geography that was so vast, they knew the exact center of the earth’s land mass. Because the base of the pyramid is located in the exact center of the earths land mass, which could not have been situated by it’s architect unless the architect in that day had known that the earth was round and knew how much land there was in all the directions from where he was standing. The pyramid was built so many thousand years ago that they don’t even know the exact time it was built, but they do know that the people who brought it into existence had mastered the science of building, had mastered the various sciences of the earth and had mastered astronomy.
-Malcolm X
(via theothafish)
- Malcolm X has been dead for over 40 years.
- Nicki Minaj is rich and famous and, hopefully, happy.
Neither one of them gives a fuck about a possible discussion about the relevance between a quote he made and the wigs she wears.
And it could be a valid discussion, if people stuck to the topic at hand instead of slinging offenses at those who agree or disagree with the connection.
movementbaby:
“….And you’ll see black women wearing these green and pink and purple and red and platinum-blonde wigs. They’re all more ridiculous than a slapstick comedy. It makes you wonder if the Negro has completely lost his sense of identity, lost touch with [her]self.
- Malcolm X
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Well then.
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
-Voltaire
“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.”
-Edmund Burke
“If… the machine of government… is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.”
-Malcolm X
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
Ballots or bullets: If white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they would be more willing to listen to Dr. King.
Malcolm X
