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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Muslim Minister
Political Activist
Politician
Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better. -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.
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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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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.
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The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.
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You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.
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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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Renaissance or the reawakening of Europe. And, and this reawakening actually involved an era during which the people of Europe, who were coming out of the Dark Ages, were then adopting the value system of the people in the East, in the, of the oriental society.
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A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.
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I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who accepted it and he said, Yes. So I asked him then what was it about it that he considered to be so danger, and he, dangerous, and he pointed out that it was the cohesiveness that it produced among the inmates. They stuck together.
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It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
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Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.
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The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference, they don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa practices and preaches the same thing.
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Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.
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We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.
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