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What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts are designed to eliminate this, that or, or the next thing but, yet, it is never eliminated is in no way impressive to me.
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I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.
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I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety.
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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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Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.
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