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"At church where he'd speak, Malcolm X was seated on the platform next to Mrs. MLK, to whom he leaned and whispered that he was "trying to help," she told Jet. "He said he wanted to present an alternative; that it might be easier for whites to accept Martin's proposals after him. I didn't understand him at first," said Mrs. King. "He seemed anxious to let MLK know he was not causing any trouble or difficult..""

"I must be honest. Afro-Americans showed no inclination to rush to the UN and demand justice for themselves here in America. I really had known in advance that they wouldn't. The American white man has so thoroughly brainwashed black man to see himself as only a domestic "civil rights" problem that it will probably take longer than I live before Negro sees that the struggle of American black man is international."

Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. From then until I left prison, in every free moment I'd, if I wasn't reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldn't have gotten me out of books with a wedge. Between Mr. Muhammad's teachings, my correspondence, my visitors, my reading, months passed without even thinking of being imprisoned. I'd never been so truly free in my life