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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X
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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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Human Rights Activist
Muslim Minister
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Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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Always that if was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.
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