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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X
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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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Muslim Minister
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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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Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.
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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
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Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as it now stands will be forced to put, exercise more violent action to deprive the negro of his mature political action.
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As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences we'll have arguments and we'll never be able to get together.
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I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight.
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That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.
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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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What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
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