Azfar Aziz on LinkedIn: Malcolm X was assassinated on Feb 21st 1965. Here are some quotes from him… (2024)

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What was Malcolm X doing when he was assassinated? ›

On Feb. 21, 1965, Malcolm X was ambushed and fatally shot while delivering a speech. His wife and daughters were in the audience. Three men were convicted of his murder.

Malcolm X advised African Americans to judiciously exercise their right to vote, but he cautioned that if the government continued to prevent African Americans from attaining full equality, it might be necessary for them to take up arms.

On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X, a religious and civil rights leader, was assassinated during a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. Malcolm X was just 39 years old and left behind his wife, Betty Shabazz, and six young daughters—including twins born after his death.

On April 4, 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

April 4, 1968, Lorraine Motel, Memphis, TN

Martin Luther King Jr. / Assassinated

Malcolm X, originally Malcolm Little, was born in Omaha, Nebraska. After moving to the Midwest with his family at a young age, he suffered great tragedy with the alleged suicide of his father and the subsequent institutionalization of his mother.

Malcolm X's quote, “a man who stands for nothing will fall for anything,” means if you don't have any principles in place, then you don't have any values or things that you hold dear, then you'll accept all. We know that the quickest way to failure is to always try to do everything.

Ladies and gentlemen, Malcolm X said in 1962 that 'the future belongs to those who prepare for it today'.

In April 2021, our nation marked the 40th anniversary of the attempt to assassinate President Ronald Wilson Reagan. On March 30, 1981, President Reagan and his Secret Service detail were departing from a midday speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. when a lone gunman opened fire.

What 2 famous people were assassinated in 1968? ›

Four days later, Kennedy announced his presidential campaign. On March 31, Johnson announced that he would not seek the presidency. Four days later, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, leading to further riots in several cities.

Feb. 21, 1965

Malcolm X, an African-American nationalist and Muslim leader, was assassinated as he began to address his newly formed Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City's Washington Heights. He was 39 — the same age as Martin Luther King Jr.

“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” “A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.” “Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.

It was during a meeting of the Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland in April 1964, that Malcolm X delivered perhaps his most famous speech, "The Ballot or the Bullet." It addressed the sharp racial divide and religious isolation of the time.

Muhammad Ali quotes that are inspirational:

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it — then I can achieve it.” “A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." "In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute." "Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us." "Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.