Articles by Malcolm X from LA Herald-Dispatch/August 15, 1957

Praise be to Allah. Who would have believed it? This little unlearned man, an ex-slave himself (a make like Moses . . . Deut 18:18) to whom Allah has given sufficient power to stand up and speak the truth so boldly here in the land of our bondage, facing not only the wrath of the wicked Slavemaster (modern Pharaoh), but also the wrath of his own kind who are ignorant of the Truth and therefore are too blind to see what is good for them, plus those who are jealous and envious of his Wisdom and his Divine Mission.

Messenger Muhammad’s teachings have really inspired us with a thirst today for truth. We who follow him are filled with a frenzied craving to wear the Crown of Life, the jewels of which are: '''Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding . . . Freedom, Justice, Equality . . . Food, Clothing, Shelter . . . Love, Peace, Happiness.''' He teaches us that these must be enjoyed while we are living.

These are the very essentials of life, and they adorn the Crown of Life which we shall wear in Allah’s Paradise (the Kingdom of God) which shall soon be set up on this earth, for us to enjoy while we are living.

Almighty God Allah has a religion of life (not of death) that teaches us to live, the importance of living, and how to live . . . Allah is God of the living, and not the god of the dead.

All praise is due to Allah. We who once followed foolishly and blindly after the Slavemaster’s plurality of gods (trinity), and sought to have our heaven (the necessities of Life) up in the sky after we die, are no longer fooled today by the Slavemaster’s lie. Today we know there is but one God. There is no God but Allah, and we bear witness that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is His last and greatest messenger to us here in North America.

Yes, we who were once dead (morally, mentally, socially, politically and economically), lying at the rich white man’s feet here in the grave of ignorance, are being raised today from this “death” being made upright, perpendicular, by the “word” of this noble Messenger of Almighty God Allah, who has the Message of life for 17,000,000 so-called Negroes here in America. The people (so-called Negroes) that walked in darkness (ignorance) have seen a great light (Islam): they that dwell in the land (of bondage) in the shadow of death (the cross), upon them has the light (of Islam) shone (Isaiah 9:2).