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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

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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Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.
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The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.
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No black person married to a white person can speak for me!
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Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.
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If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.
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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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A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing.
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I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream I see an American nightmare.
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They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.
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The Chinese in this country aren't asking for integration.
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I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.
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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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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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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.
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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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Why must I run against a Negro? We have had enough of Negroes running against and fighting with each other. The better bet is that we would put a Muslim candidate in the field against a devil, somebody who is against all we stand for.
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Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet.
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.
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The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.
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