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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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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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Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.
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In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.
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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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Soon now, as the Negro awakens a little more and sees the vise that he's in, sees the bag that he's in, sees the real game that he's in, then the Negro's going to develop a new tactic.
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Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
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After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.
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Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.
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I don't mean go out and get violent but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.
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It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.
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Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.
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Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity.
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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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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.
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Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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