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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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Nebraska
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Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.
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After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.
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If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.
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If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.
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America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like.
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
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Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
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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.
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