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Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.
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 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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My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.
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No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.
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You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.
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Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!
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The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.
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The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.
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Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.
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If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.
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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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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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Instead of working for white man and helping him hold up a government that continues to suppress us socially and, and exploit us economically and oppress us politically, let us go and enter our own territory and use our own talents to uplift ourselves by our own bootstraps. And then he will recognize us for what we are.
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America just reaped what it had been sowing.
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Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they had some type of identity, culture, civilization before they were brought here.
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The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world.
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If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.
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Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.
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