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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.
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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Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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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.
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Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.
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If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.
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I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.
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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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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter. But he's teaching the black people to suffer peacefully, patiently, until the white man makes up his mind that you're a human being the same as he.
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Stumbling isn't falling.
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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
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The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community no more.
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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
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I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected
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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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I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do to accept that which is already within you, and around you.
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The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality.
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The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.
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I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.
Malcolm X
I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.
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