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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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Human Rights Activist
Muslim Minister
Political Activist
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Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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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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When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any organization as long as it didn't make us compromise our religious principles.
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You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.
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They call me a teacher, a fomenter of violence. I would say point blank, That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.
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People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.
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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.
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The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.
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No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.
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When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they consider to be the enemy isn't there. So, they knock at his property. This is what makes them knock down the store windows and set fire to things, and things of that sort.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.
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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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The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.
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Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of rights that you can think of, when it comes to defending himself, black people - we should have the right to defend ourselves also.
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When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.
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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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Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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