The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union

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The students all over the world are the ones who bring about a change; old people don't bring about a change. -Malcolm X, Organization of Afro-American Unity rally, Harlem, November 29, 1964

Malcolm X returned to New York from his eighteen-week African tour on the evening of November 24. The "controversial Muslim leader," wrote a reporter who intercepted him at the airport, declared that "extremism in defense of freedom is no vice. "134 The Oxford debate was clearly on his mind.

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