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To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

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
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Omaha
Nebraska
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.
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The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own problems, there won't be any explosion, and the Negroes who want to stay with the white man, let them stay with the white man - but those who want to leave, let them go to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
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We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are within our rights to protect themselves by whatever means necessary.
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I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.
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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.
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The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the community in which we live, which means that we won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get jobs.
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The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to protect ourselves, then it's the government that should be charged with the crime, because we're only upholding a law that they've been unable to uphold.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.
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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 had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.
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You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary.
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If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.
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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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Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.
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