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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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Learning
Results
Growing
Justice
Diversity

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You don't integrate with a sinking ship.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.
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Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?
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Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose.
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We are about to have a racial explosion.
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Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
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You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months.
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My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.
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An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.
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Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.
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Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.
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Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.
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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're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.
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