Malcolm X, faced with his own version of the progress roadblock in the race debate (where the argument was that American negroes were not being lynched anymore), said, ‘If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound …’
