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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

Malcolm X

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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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Letting
Enemy
Freedom
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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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I don't mean go out and get violent but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.
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To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.
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At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me.
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If I go home and someone, and my child has blood running down her leg and someone tells me that a snake bit her, I'm going out and kill the snake. And when I find the snake, I'm not going to look and see if he has blood on his jaws.
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In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.
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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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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words
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The common enemy is the white man.
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To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.
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Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind.
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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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When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going to be detrimental to all of them, they'll keep that, perhaps they'll then take the necessary steps to keep their fellow snakes away from my chickens or away from my children if the responsibility is placed upon them.
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God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.
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When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.
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When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.
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Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.
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Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.
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The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
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