Al Hajj Malik Al Shabazz formerly known as Malcolm X

"You’re living at a time of revolution.

A time where there’s got to be a change.

People in power have misused it.

And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built.

I will join with anyone, I don’t care what color you are, as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.”

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Marine Corps veteran and journalist Jerrod Zisser has received messages from a sailor on the USS Abraham Lincoln:

“I’m reading texts saying that he’s starving, that he’s almost passing out in line waiting for food... I don’t care what your political beliefs are—if you raise your right hand and swear an oath to the Constitution, you should not have to worry whether or not you’re going to get adequate food at all.”

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Each hour here in the Holy Land enables me to have greater spiritual insights into what is happening in America between black and white.

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities—he is only reacting to four hundred years of conscious racism of the American whites. But as racism leads America up the suicide path, I do believe, from the experience that I have had with them, that the whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth—the only way left to America to ward off the disaster that racism inevitably must lead to.

Never have I been so highly honored.

Never have I been made to feel more humble and unworthy. Who would believe the blessings that have been heaped upon an American Negro? A few nights ago, a man who would be called in America a ‘white’ man, a United Nations diplomat, an ambassador, a companion of kings, gave me his hotel suite, his bed. By this man, His Excellency Prince Faisal who rules this Holy Land, was made aware of my presence here in Jedda. The very next morning, Prince Faisal’s son, in person, informed me that by the will and decree of his esteemed father, I was to be a State Guest. The deputy Chief of Protocol himself took me before the Hajj Court. His Holiness Sheikh Muhammad Harkon himself okayed my visit to Mecca. His Holiness gave me two books on Islam, with his personal seal and autograph, and he told me that he prayed that I would be a successful preacher of Islam in America. A car, a driver, and a guide, have been placed at my disposal, making it possible for me to travel about this Holy Land almost at will. The government provides air conditioned quarters and servants in each city that I visit. Never would I have even thought of dreaming that I would ever be a recipient of such honors—honors that in America would be bestowed upon a King—not a Negro. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the Worlds.

- April 20, 1964


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⚡️Gaza sources:

One child was killed and two others were injured after a bomb was dropped from an Israeli drone on children playing near the Abu Dan factory in the Beit Lahia Project, north of the Gaza Strip.

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UNRWA smuggled the Palestinian memory archive from its headquarters in Gaza, meaning the record of every Palestinian who became a refugee after the 1948 Nakba, to preserve their legitimate right to return and compensation in the event of a settlement.

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