I watched a movie yesterday.
The phrase in the excerpt from a 1964 interview with Malcolm X indicates that he is explicitly stating an opinion is this "<span>{I don't think that it} serves any purpose for the {leaders of our people} to waste their time fighting each other needlessly."</span>
Several ways you can determine the validity is
1.) The author and his credentials.
2.) Sources that back up the article/publication.
3.) Whether the article features bias or none, when appropriate.
Ed appears to be in the first stage of psycosexual development