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There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

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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Omaha
Nebraska
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I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds .
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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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I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.
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You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country?
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The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.
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I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
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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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The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.
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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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After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.
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Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?
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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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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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If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.
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I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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What does a black man look like begging for a cup of coffee in a white restaurant, and doesn't have a job to back up his - to pay for it when, when - when he does get the coffee? It's putting the cart before the horse.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.
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