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The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.

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
Political Activist
Politician
Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.
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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
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I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.
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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
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But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.
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If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.
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Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.
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Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.
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I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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