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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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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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If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.
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We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.
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You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months.
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The number one thing that has to be done, [black men] has to be retaught, be given - he has to be reeducated and made to know that he's a man, like anyone else, and then he can stand on his own two feet, like others have done.
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Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so big that their own organization as such, by itself, can never come to a, can never come up with a solution.
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We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.
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...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
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I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?
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It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they had some type of identity, culture, civilization before they were brought here.
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Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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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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To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.
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Solve the race problem here, and once you solve the race problem here, you don't have to send these billions of dollars abroad.
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I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.
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