The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union

I read how, entering India-half a billion deeply religious brown people-the British white man, by 1759, through promises, trickery and manipulations, controlled much of India through Great Britain's East India Company. The parasitical British administration kept tentacling out to half of the subcontinent. -Malcolm X, Autobiography

"The duty of the University of Oxford," declared the prominent Victorian intellectual John Ruskin, was "to educate English gentlemen. "1 And the duty of "the most energetic and worthiest" of these gentlemen, Ruskin further explained in his inaugural lecture as Oxford's Professor of Art in 1870, was to be "seizing every piece of fruitful waste ground" that England "can set her foot on" and to make the "sceptered isle for all the world a source of light. "2