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Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
Autobiographer
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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Truth
Matter

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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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The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational principles if someone comes up with a solution that will really solve the problem.
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No religion will ever make me forget the condition of our people in this country...No God, no religion, no nothing will make me forget it until it stops, until it's elimitnated. I want to make that point clear.
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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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One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.
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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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The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.
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If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
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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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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
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The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.
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I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?
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I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.
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Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.
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But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.
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It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.
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Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization.
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