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I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

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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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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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their differences in color.
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[Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been.
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You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.
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Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better. -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X
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I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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We are about to have a racial explosion.
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The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!
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They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.
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No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.
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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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I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion.
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