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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.
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You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose.
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Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.
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The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will take time for him to build it. But right now the American black man has the political strength and power to change his destiny overnight.
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Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned.
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[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
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I know that I will not die until my time comes.
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[ Uncle Sam] is not sending 20 billion dollars to South America because he loves those people down here. He's sending it - sending it to them because he needs their friendship, he needs their allegion - their allegiance.
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If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.
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I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who accepted it and he said, Yes. So I asked him then what was it about it that he considered to be so danger, and he, dangerous, and he pointed out that it was the cohesiveness that it produced among the inmates. They stuck together.
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I find it difficult [to believe] that... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or... hatred, because their own history and... teachings are filled with it.
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Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.
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That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck.
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Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.
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True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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