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I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

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
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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
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Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.
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[Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been.
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True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.
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Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
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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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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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Only the mistakes were mine.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.
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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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It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.
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I am not an American I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.
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America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like.
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It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism!
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Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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