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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

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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The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!
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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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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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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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[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.
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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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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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The people listening very closely to what the Muslims have always declared. They'll find that in every declaration there's the fact that, the same as, as Moses told Pharaoh, You're doomed if you don't do so and so, or as Daniel told, I think it was Balthazar or Nebuchadnezzar, You are doomed if you don't do so and so.
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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.
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They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain.
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
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I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York City form of discrimination. It's, it's both discrimination it's all discrimination.
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I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.
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They call me a teacher, a fomenter of violence. I would say point blank, That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.
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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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It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and criminal exploitation of the American negro from the color of the skin of the person who is the oppressor or the exploiter.
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As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences we'll have arguments and we'll never be able to get together.
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