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I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!

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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Omaha
Nebraska
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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
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Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out.
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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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Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?
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Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.
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I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.
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I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.
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My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.
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It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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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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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.
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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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I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.
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Soon now, as the Negro awakens a little more and sees the vise that he's in, sees the bag that he's in, sees the real game that he's in, then the Negro's going to develop a new tactic.
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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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Always that if was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.
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Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doing for self & then Islam will provide the spiritual guidance. BN [Black Nationalism] will link us to Africa and Islam will link us spiritually to Africa, Arabia & Asia.
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I am not an American I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.
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