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The only thing power respects, is power.
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
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Politician
Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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Thing
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We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.
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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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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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The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential.
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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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I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their differences in color.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.
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Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
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Solve the race problem here, and once you solve the race problem here, you don't have to send these billions of dollars abroad.
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I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.
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The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to protect ourselves, then it's the government that should be charged with the crime, because we're only upholding a law that they've been unable to uphold.
Malcolm X
If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.
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