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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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Nebraska
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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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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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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No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.
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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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Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
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White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts are designed to eliminate this, that or, or the next thing but, yet, it is never eliminated is in no way impressive to me.
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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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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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[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.
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At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.
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He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black.
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A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing.
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God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.
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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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If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.
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This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.
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I admire the, the stand of China and the stand of Mao Tse- tung, but I can't admire with respect the stand of, of Nehru in India. I just can't do it.
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