“A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, graduate with crippled minds.”

— Malcolm X, Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (3 April 1964)

About Malcolm X

1925 – 1965

American civil-rights leader and author of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

“My alma mater was books, a good library.”

“We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves.”

“There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.”

“From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.”

“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.”

“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”

“It is time to take action so it becomes the last time that we see a child deprived of education.”

“I am here to speak for the right of education for every child.”

“My father says that education is neither Eastern or Western.”