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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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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!
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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.
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They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.
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A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.
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I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.
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Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!
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If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months.
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We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.
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How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims.
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[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.
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When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they consider to be the enemy isn't there. So, they knock at his property. This is what makes them knock down the store windows and set fire to things, and things of that sort.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.
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I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.
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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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