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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Muslim Minister
Political Activist
Politician
Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage.
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Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.
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The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability.
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The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.
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My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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Renaissance or the reawakening of Europe. And, and this reawakening actually involved an era during which the people of Europe, who were coming out of the Dark Ages, were then adopting the value system of the people in the East, in the, of the oriental society.
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My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.
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One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.
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What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.
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[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.
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We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.
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No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.
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