The words and images of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X — part 6 of 7

Malcolm X during a February 1965 press interview in Harlem. Photo from “The Last Speeches of Malcolm X” (Pathfinder Press).

Malcolm X

Separation is when you have your own. They don’t call Chinatown in New York City or on the West Coast a segregated community, yet it’s all Chinese. But the Chinese control it. Chinese voluntarily live there, they control it. They run it. They have their own schools. They control their own politics, control their own industry. And they don’t feel like they’re being made inferior because they have to live to themselves.

Martin Luther King Jr.

While I strongly disagree with their separatist black supremacy philosophy, I have nothing but admiration for what our Muslim brothers have done to rehabilitate ex-convicts, dope addicts, and men and women who, through despair and self-hatred, have sunk to moral degeneracy.

Martin Luther King Jr. with his Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10, 1964. Dr. King delivered a five-minute acceptance speech to the largest crowd ever assembled for the Peace Prize ceremony. Photo from “What Manner of Man” (Johnson Publications Co.).