“Human rights are something you were born with.”

— 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.”

“With rebellion, awareness is born.”

“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”

“The age of antiquity is the youth of the world.”

“Happiness was born a twin.”

“Youth, large, lusty, loving—Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!”

“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.”