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We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.

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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Men
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I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion.
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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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I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.
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[ Uncle Sam] is not sending 20 billion dollars to South America because he loves those people down here. He's sending it - sending it to them because he needs their friendship, he needs their allegion - their allegiance.
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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 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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Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.
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Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil.
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When you hear me say by any means necessary, I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.
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God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!
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What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
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We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.
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...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
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