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The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.
Malcolm X
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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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Human Rights Activist
Muslim Minister
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Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.
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Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
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America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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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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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 the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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The Messenger has seen God. He was with Allah and was given divine patience with the devil. He is willing to wait for Allah to deal with this devil. Well, sir, the rest of us Black Muslims have not seen God, we don't have this gift of divine patience with the devil. The younger Black Muslims want to see some action.
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My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.
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Only in this form of separation the black man is exploited. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.
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The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology
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The common enemy is the white man.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!
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I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.
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