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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

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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You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months.
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My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.
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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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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who accepted it and he said, Yes. So I asked him then what was it about it that he considered to be so danger, and he, dangerous, and he pointed out that it was the cohesiveness that it produced among the inmates. They stuck together.
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[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man re-evaluate himself. Don't change the white man's mind you can't change his mind. And that whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of America--America's conscience is bankrupt.
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What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?
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So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear...
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Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind.
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At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me.
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True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.
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Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
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It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.
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Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.
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Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.
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Solve the race problem here, and once you solve the race problem here, you don't have to send these billions of dollars abroad.
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If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.
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The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.
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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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Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.
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