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Quotes About Martin Luther King Jr. and Nonviolence Dr. King wants the same thing I want. Freedom.
Malcolm X, Source unknown I want Dr. King to know that I didn't come to Selma to make his job difficult.
I really did come thinking I could make it easier. If the white people realize
what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr. King.
Malcolm X, Interview with Claude Lewis, December 1964 (after Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize)
Concerning
nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the
constant victim of brutal attacks.
Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey
the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the
cemetery.
Malcolm X, WUST interview,
1963
Malcolm X, in Coretta Scott King's, My life with MLK Jr., p. 256
(Martin Luther King, Jr., about Malcolm)
You know, right before he was killed he came down to Selma and said some pretty
passionate things against me, and that surprised me because after all it was my
territory there. But afterwards he took my wife aside, and said he thought he
could help me more by attacking me than praising me. He thought it would make
it easier for me in the long run.
MLK, Halberstam, "Second coming of MLK", p.51
He got the peace prize, and we got the problem.. ... If I'm following a general,
and he's leading me into a battle, and the enemy tends to give him rewards,
or awards, I get suspicious of him. Especially if he gets a peace award before
the war is over.
Malcolm X, Source unknown
I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called
him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along
and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.
Malcolm X, to
300 Islamic students, Manchester Guardian Weekly, 10 Dec. 1964, p.6
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