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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

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
Politician
Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government.
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Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity.
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The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community no more.
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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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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man, has found it impossible to bring about integration, other than toke on a ta - other than on a token basis, and which proves that the, the two of us, the ex-slave and the master, can't live in the same house as equals.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.
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The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
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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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The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you will let anyone come in and take control of the economy of your community, control the housing, control the education, control the jobs, control the businesses, under the pre-text that you want to integrate. No, you outta your mind.
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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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You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.
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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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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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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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