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Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually

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
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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Growing is the result of learning.
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My alma mater was books, a good library.
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Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.
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Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.
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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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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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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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The common enemy is the white man.
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Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.
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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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One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.
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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 same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter. But he's teaching the black people to suffer peacefully, patiently, until the white man makes up his mind that you're a human being the same as he.
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History is not hatred.
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I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.
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I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
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