Malcom X

Prison.  Isolated detainment from society where all criminals and murderers come together all for one reason.  They have, for the time being, been deemed unfit to walk the streets and coexist in society.  Malcom X, emprisoned for burglary and had a previous record of petty crimes and common criminal acts.  From an outside viewing source the man known as Malcolm Little (at the time) would have looked like just another person going down a path leading to nowhere, but it would be unlikely to expect that he would have ended up the influential civil rights leader of a generation.  It just goes to show that knowledge can change the entire path and direction of your life and if Malcom X never opened a book in prison and chose to learn he probably would died another nameless person.  Since he made the conscious choice to become enlightened and empowered by knowledge, I now am writing about him.  He details his struggles in prison to educate himself and how he personally made the decision to change something about where he was in life.  It turns out, it made all the difference.  knowledge is power... cliched but proves true in many a case.