The Bourne Supremacy

Born on October 7 1931 in Klerksdorp, South Africa. Desmond Mpilo Tutu is known as one of the world’s most prominent spiritual leaders. Till this day, he is still fighting to fix justice issues. Coming from a poor family background, with his father being an elementary school principal and his mother who cooked and cleaned for a school for the blind, Tutu grew up with segregation. Just like how African Americans were treated in America, Africans were denied the right to vote and moved out of…

The Greatest Muhammad Ali experienced injustice at one of his earliest times as a boxer for the U.S. (“Muhammad Ali”, 2000). This made him make a decision that could have jeopardized his career. Muhammad Ali used his privileged fame and success from boxing to show people a world where anyone can feel comfortable about speaking about important topics, even if it affects their image. As a kid, Ali was always very curious, asking questions about the limited amount of racial diversity in the Bible,…

Malcolm X was an active and controversial leader in the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. His radical ideas and methods challenged other leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm did not have a stable childhood. His family of ten moved around the country frequently and was always subjected to acts of discrimination. His father Earl Little was a Baptist minister who was very involved in the fight for equality. Due to this early activism, the Little family received many death threats from the Black…

A Unconventional Series of Changes Unafraid of death, Malcom Little lived his life with an increased awareness for the common day. His belief that he would one day die a violent death affected the quality of his life. Malcom learned that change is inevitable, and that in order to live a life of substance a prerequisite is to always be learning. Every day, after his prison education, Malcom lived to impact the culture in which he lived. In his autobiography Malcom said, “Every morning I wake…

Then, they can recover very easily after hard events. Anyway, to give up is not an option; tunnelers are like the phoenix. They have the survivors’ attitude so do Malcolm X. Unfortunately for Malcolm X, his difficulties began long before his birth. He had reported in The Autobiography of Malcolm X that while his mother was pregnant of him, a “Ku Klux Klan riders galloped and surrounded the house, they shouted for my father to come out, my mother told them that she was alone with her three small…

The Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist organization that was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. Originally founded as a social club for former Confederate soldiers, the Klan evolved into a terrorist organization. “This was the KKK. Only WASP's could belong to it — White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. It is a common myth that the KKK targeted only the Blacks – also hated were the Jews, Catholics, liberals etc but most hatred was directed against the poor black families in the South who were very…

Motivation for Self-Education The essays “Coming to the Awareness of Language” by Malcolm X and “The Library Card” by Richard Wright are about how two men tried to educate themselves by reading books. Malcolm X was a man in the 1940-1950 who spent his time in jail rewriting the pages of the dictionary to better himself as both a reader and writer. He wanted to better his education and be able to write letters to Elijah Muhammad without sounding uneducated. He was reading about African American…

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” (myinterestingfacts.com) This is a famous quote is said by Malcolm X. Malcolm X is a very well known human rights activist. When he was born, his name was Malcolm Little, but then changed it because “He considered ‘Little’ a slave name and chose the ‘X’ to signify his lost tribal name.” (malcolmX.com). Malcolm X should go down in history as being just as well known as Martin Luther King. Throughout this paper, everyone should learn more…

“If you dont stand for something you will fall for anything”(Malcolm X). Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. He was assassinated February 21, 1965 by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. His followers looked at him as a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, while he was there for the harshest term for crimes against black americans. People call him a preacher of…

I know a lot about Minister Lois Farrakhan. Louis Farrakhan, Sr. (born Louis Eugene Wolcott; May 11, 1933, and formerly known as Louis X) is the leader of the religious group Nation of Islam (NOI). He served as the minister of major mosques in Boston and Harlem, and was appointed by the longtime NOI leader, Elijah Muhammad, as the National Representative of the Nation of Islam. After Warith Deen Muhammad disbanded the NOI and started the orthodox Islamic group American Society of Muslims,…