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Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of being anti-Semitic, simply because he teaches our people to go into business for ourselves and take over the economic leadership in our own community.

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
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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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And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago.
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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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No black person married to a white person can speak for me!
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The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.
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The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. And at no time did Moses in the Bible ever try and integrate the Hebrews into the Egyptian society or accept any hypocritical offers made by the slave master of that day.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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I am not an American I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.
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Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so big that their own organization as such, by itself, can never come to a, can never come up with a solution.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.
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The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!
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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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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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Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.
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When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any organization as long as it didn't make us compromise our religious principles.
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The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!
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Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.
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