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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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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
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A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing.
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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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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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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary
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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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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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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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Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition and respect as a human being.
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I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.
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As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.
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It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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The number one thing that has to be done, [black men] has to be retaught, be given - he has to be reeducated and made to know that he's a man, like anyone else, and then he can stand on his own two feet, like others have done.
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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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One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.
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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
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