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Stumbling isn't falling.

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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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
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It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude.
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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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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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If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.
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