Malcolm X

“ Messenger Elijah Muhammad, a meek and humble little Black Man, who has been Divinely Taught and Divinely Missioned by the Supreme Being, Almighty God Allah Himself, to teach naked truth to the so-called Negroes of America and raise us from our mental sleep, is making a proclamation among us today that the world must bear witness had to come straight from the mouth of Our God. ”

“ We have been his most dependable servants, proven trustworthy, never having produced even one spy or traitor from among ourselves . . . yet our Slavemaster won’t give us the right to be a citizen here.
We don’t have full citizenship (civil rights) here in America, and therefore the word “American” can’t rightfully be applied to us to designate our nationality, so our Slavemaster calls us Negroes, and Messenger Elijah Muhammad teaches us that the word “Negro” means something that is dead, lifeless. ”

“ He himself is almost like a “god,” his powers are so great. Small wonder then that every four years the eyes of even the foreign nations are turned toward America at election time, wondering who is going to be the next “god.” ”