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Let's cool it, brothers.

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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Brothers
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You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.
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Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.
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Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a man's skin happens to be wrong, then I say those people are justified to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice when the government can't give them justice.
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I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.
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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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[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.
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America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like.
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Stumbling isn't falling.
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Only the mistakes were mine.
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They're not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they're using their positions and their education and their talent to exploit our people worse than the slave master did during slavery.
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There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white.
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They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.
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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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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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