"I, for one, believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program; and when the people create a program, you get action."
American civil rights leader and Black nationalist who became a prominent spokesperson for the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and early 1960s. After leaving the organization, he founded Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. He was assassinated in New York City in 1965.