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Malcolm X's critique of white America and white liberals during his time with the Nation of Islam.
Yes — Malcolm X repeatedly criticized "white liberals" in his speeches and writings; a commonly cited line is "The white liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man," a ...
Malcolm X did not use the exact formulation "It was the liberals who killed the black man's spirit by convincing him he was still oppressed" in the provided sources, but he repeatedly and explicitly c...
Malcolm X drew a sharp distinction between white liberals and white conservatives to warn Black Americans that well-meaning rhetoric could mask political manipulation — arguing that conservatives are ...
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, 1925–1965) rose from a troubled youth and prison sentence to become the Nation of Islam’s most visible minister and national spokesman, articulating Black nationalism, ...
Malcolm X spent much of the 1950s and early 1960s publicly excoriating “white liberals” as dangerous, hypocritical actors in the struggle for Black freedom, and the reporting provided records those su...
Malcolm X’s 1964 denunciations of “white liberals” — calling them false friends who “have failed us” and even “the worst enemy to the Black man” — were explicit and recurring themes in his speeches . ...
Malcolm X’s Nation of Islam (NOI) years (roughly 1952–early 1964) contain multiple speeches and published remarks that explicitly cast “the white man” as the principal enemy of Black people and that a...
Malcolm X’s critique of “the white liberal” was a pointed political and moral indictment: he argued that self-styled white liberals pose a particular danger because they present themselves as allies w...
A short list of Malcolm X’s most famous, frequently reprinted lines captures his evolution from Nation of Islam minister to global human-rights advocate; these include aphorisms about conviction (“A m...
Historians generally portray Malcolm X in the mid-1960s as a figure in transition: while earlier identified with racial separatism and blunt critique of white America and white allies, by 1964–65 his ...