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When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.
Malcolm X
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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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Nebraska
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To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.
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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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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
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Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.
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[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.
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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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What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.
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The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.
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If I go home and someone, and my child has blood running down her leg and someone tells me that a snake bit her, I'm going out and kill the snake. And when I find the snake, I'm not going to look and see if he has blood on his jaws.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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