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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.

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
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The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.
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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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The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.
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The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality.
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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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So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear...
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Only the mistakes were mine.
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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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All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.
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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
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America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like.
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[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.
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I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.
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The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.
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I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
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Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.
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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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The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.
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