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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.

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
Political Activist
Politician
Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.
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It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude.
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It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.
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The common enemy is the white man.
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Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.
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If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.
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The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.
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Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.
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Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.
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I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed.
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.
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God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.
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You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.
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Renaissance or the reawakening of Europe. And, and this reawakening actually involved an era during which the people of Europe, who were coming out of the Dark Ages, were then adopting the value system of the people in the East, in the, of the oriental society.
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He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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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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Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better. -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X
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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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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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