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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.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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Muslim Minister
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...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
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Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
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This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.
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It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.
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My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.
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