Frasi di Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Data di nascita: 19. Maggio 1925
Data di morte: 21. Febbraio 1965
Altri nomi:Malcolm Little
Malcolm X, nato Malcolm Little, anche noto come Detroit Red, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz e Omowale , è stato un attivista statunitense a favore dei diritti degli afroamericani e dei diritti umani in genere. Fu assassinato a New York il primo giorno della Settimana Nazionale della Fratellanza per mano di membri dell'organizzazione di cui era stato precedentemente portavoce, la Nazione Islamica.
È considerato uno dei più grandi, ma anche controversi, capofila afroamericani del XX secolo. Alla fine di una lunga evoluzione del suo pensiero, che era partito da posizioni oltranziste e di contrapposizione violenta allo status quo, sostenne infine che la religione islamica era capace di abbattere ogni barriera razziale e ogni forma di discriminazione, capeggiando comunque un'organizzazione politica di atteggiamento non religioso e non settario nella difesa dei diritti umani.
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attivista sudafricanoFrasi Malcolm X
„Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.“
— Malcolm X
Context: So our people not only have to be re-educated to the importance of supporting black business, but the black man himself has to be made aware of the importance of going into business. And once you and I go into business, we own and operate at least the businesses in our community. What we will be doing is developing a situation wherein we will actually be able to create employment for the people in the community. And once you can create some employment in the community where you live it will eliminate the necessity of you and me having to act ignorantly and disgracefully, boycotting and picketing some place else trying to beg him for a job. Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
„I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination.“
— Malcolm X
Context: I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
Interview (January 1965?)
„We need to expand the civil-rights struggle to a higher level—to the level of human rights. Whenever you are in a civil-rights struggle, whether you know it or not, you are confining yourself to the jurisdiction of Uncle Sam. No one from the outside world can speak out in your behalf as long as your struggle is a civil-rights struggle. Civil rights comes within the domestic affairs of this country.“
— Malcolm X
Context: We need to expand the civil-rights struggle to a higher level—to the level of human rights. Whenever you are in a civil-rights struggle, whether you know it or not, you are confining yourself to the jurisdiction of Uncle Sam. No one from the outside world can speak out in your behalf as long as your struggle is a civil-rights struggle. Civil rights comes within the domestic affairs of this country. All of our African brothers and our Asian brothers and our Latin-American brothers cannot open their mouths and interfere in the domestic affairs of the United States. And as long as it’s civil rights, this comes under the jurisdiction of Uncle Sam. But the United Nations has what’s known as the charter of human rights; it has a committee that deals in human rights. You may wonder why all of the atrocities that have been committed in Africa and in Hungary and in Asia, and in Latin America are brought before the UN, and the Negro problem is never brought before the UN. This is part of the conspiracy. This old, tricky blue eyed liberal who is supposed to be your and my friend, supposed to be in our corner, supposed to be subsidizing our struggle, and supposed to be acting in the capacity of an adviser, never tells you anything about human rights. They keep you wrapped up in civil rights. And you spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don’t even know there’s a human-rights tree on the same floor.
