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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.
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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
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I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream I see an American nightmare.
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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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America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the Northern white power structure's system to keep talking democracy while keeping the black man out of sight somewhere, around the corner.
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I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.
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I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York City form of discrimination. It's, it's both discrimination it's all discrimination.
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My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages, who brought about the period, or ushered in or initiated the atmosphere that brought into Europe the period known as the Renaissance.
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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 religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.
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