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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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The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world.
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I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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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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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.
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No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.
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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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... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
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America just reaped what it had been sowing.
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I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.
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The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.
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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.
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My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages, who brought about the period, or ushered in or initiated the atmosphere that brought into Europe the period known as the Renaissance.
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Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.
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I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary
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The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.
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There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.
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