By Any Means Necessary (Malcolm X speeches & writings)

Really really good

Excellent book, highly recommended

This is a collection of Malcolm X's speeches and written work. It's a useful insight into the mind of one of the great civil rights campaigners of the early 1960s USA. Malcolm X concluded that asking the racists and KKK to treat black people better was not working. He thought that fighting back was the only way to protect the rights of black people, hence the title: By Any Means Necessary. He was an advocate of using politics, of getting black people involved, but seems disappointed by the actions of the two political parties. The book includes a short biography of his life and his involvement with The Nation of Islam, his travels to various parts of Africa and how that influenced what he thought. He was assassinated before his work was completed. You can hear the frustration at the prejudice he encountered, yet he remains rational and open to ideas. If you have any interest in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, this is a useful and insightful book.

Firstly I would like to start of by saying that for those who are just started to learn about Malcolm X and his extraordinary life which contributed and still contributes much to our lives today, that you start off with the autobio first then read this book I say that purely because I found it a lot more cohesive to read the autobio then move towards this book because the mans ideology changed and that is visible and explained in the autobio. Hence if you read this first then you may slightly get confused. In reviewing this book I must admit I will be bias in my opinion because the man himself has had a intricate part in altering my life for the better, however for Malcolm X followers who have not read this book you will read a man who's love for revolution, justice and realism developed so much that you will realise that if he had not been assassinated his plans with the OAAU would have changed the world. I would highly recommend this for a Malcolm X follower. For those who are jus started to learn about the man that is Malcolm X I would recommend this book because not only will you see the inner revolution that took place inside the man that is misunderstood due to propaganda but his coming of age and just makes you think if only his vision had took place how the world would have become better. To finish with I shall say one thing....the main objective of this book is to make you realise...if you want something then you work for it By Any Means Necessary.

Arrived very quickly and very inspiring definitely recommend

I've read a lot of quotes etc. by Malcolm X and have been looking for this book for a long time where I'd get to read more of his speeches and writings, this book is incredible.

A must for any Malcom fan.

Nothing

très bon livre, ca montre très bien le combat que menait Malcom X pour que les peuples opprimés accèdent à la liberté et à l'auto determination

War ein Geschenk. Hat sich gefreut

I think the best way to describe this great book is a few excerpts. "... by any means necessary. That's our motto. We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary." "We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out." "Those who claim to be enemies of the system were on their hands and knees waiting for [Democratic president] Johnson to get elected because he's supposed to be a man of peace; and he has troops invading the Congo [in Africa] right now and invading Saigon [Vietnam]...." "This political, economic, and social system of America was produced from the enslavement of the black man and that particular system is capable only of reproducing that out of which itself was produced." "No, you have got no friends in Washington, D.C.... You've got friends in Africa, friends in Asia, friends in Latin America." "[The] thing that I would like to impress upon every Afro-American leader is that no kind of action in this country is ever going to bear fruit unless that action is tied in with the overall international struggle." (In one of his speeches, Malcolm read the founding statement of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) which he led, adding his own comments. Malcolm didn't write the statement himself; it was developed by a committee of the new group.) "[quoting OAAU] 'A first step in the program to end the existing system of racist education is to demand that the 10 percent of the [New York city] schools the Board of Education will not include in its [desegregation] plan be turned over to and run by the Afro-American community itself.'" "[quoting OAAU] 'The [Black] community must ... wage an unrelenting struggle against police brutality.'" "Wherever you have organized crime, that type of crime cannot exist other than with the consent of the police, the knowledge of the police and the cooperation of the police.... [Criminals] pay the police off so that they will not get arrested. I know what I'm talking about - I used to be out there." "[quoting OAAU] 'We propose to support and organize political clubs, to run independent candidates for office, and to support any Afro-American already in office who answers to and is responsible to the Afro-American community.' We don't support any black man who is controlled by the white power structure." I recommend the ads in the back of the book. Pathfinder Press is defined by a political goal, not commercial success. It aims to provide a platform for revolutionary leaders speaking in their own words. If you like one book, you will probably like others. I also recommend "Malcolm X Talks to Young People". (See my review. Click on my name at the beginning of this review, then “Reviews”.) (I am a long-time socialist and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, the Militant newspaper and Pathfinder Press.)

Very educational.

Dieses Buch ist die unverfälschte Sichtweise von Malcom X bevor er sich von der Nation of Islam lossagte, ein gutes Interview, ehrlich beantwortet. ein weiterführendes Buch über Malcom X gibt es beim Fischer Verlag, allerdings mit Dr. King. Es zeigt die Rassentrennung in den USA bis 1963 bzw. 1967 auf.