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The common enemy is the white man.
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
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.
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The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.
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I think that Nehru probably was a good man, although I didn't go for it. I don't go for anybody who is passive. I don't go for anybody who advocates passivism or peaceful suffering in any form whatsoever. I don't go for it.
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Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
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When you have to pass a law to make a man let me have a house, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me go to school, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me walk down the street, you have to enforce that law and you'd have to be living actually in a police state. It would take a police state in this country.
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I grew up in the country on a farm it was whenever someone said even that a snake was eating the chickens or bothering the chickens, we'd kill snakes. We never knew whether that was the snake that did it.
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When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability.
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That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.
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When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.
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After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.
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You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.
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New York white youth were killing victims that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.
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I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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