He’s often known for his controversial views and speeches, but Malcolm Little — best known as Malcolm X — was also a vocal supporter of black empowerment and civil rights.
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00:00There's no such thing as a peaceful revolution. There's no such thing as a bloodless revolution.
00:05My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather and
00:31his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slave master. The real
00:35names of our people were destroyed during slavery.
01:05The prisons aren't set up to rehabilitate Negroes. They're set up to perpetuate the
01:13criminal tendencies of Negroes.
01:31My personal political philosophy is black nationalism, which means that the black man
01:36should control the politics of his own community and control the politicians who are in his
01:40own community.
01:45We don't advocate violence, but our people have been the constant victims of brutality
01:50on the part of America's racists and the government has found itself either unwilling or unable
01:54to do anything about it. So out of necessity, we've reached the point now where our people
02:00must form self-defense units.
02:10I'm as much against integration as the white people in New York City are, but I am also
02:15against segregation and I'm for separation.
02:31You call this a nonviolent movement?
02:35Nonviolent is a word that's misused today. I would call it a peaceful movement, which
02:41reserves the right to defend itself whenever it is attacked.