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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
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Malachi Shabazz
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I don't mean go out and get violent but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.
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That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck.
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Only the mistakes were mine.
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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical.
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God is about to eliminate the white man from this earth.
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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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We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
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Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
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One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected.
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