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It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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
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Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration, as they've been making an effort to do in this country for the past years, is also just as impractical.
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We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.
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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching the black man, you're a human man.All you have to do is dignify yourself. You don't have to wait for any white man to recognize you. Recognize yourself. Love each other. Practice harmony and brotherhood among your own kind.
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If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.
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I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
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I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.
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The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts are designed to eliminate this, that or, or the next thing but, yet, it is never eliminated is in no way impressive to me.
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Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?
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You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear top hats. They're called Doctor, they're called - Reverend, but they're still - they play the same role today that Uncle Tom played on the plantation.
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