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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.

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
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you will let anyone come in and take control of the economy of your community, control the housing, control the education, control the jobs, control the businesses, under the pre-text that you want to integrate. No, you outta your mind.
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Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.
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You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.
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The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.
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My alma mater was books, a good library.
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Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better. -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.
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Those who stay here can help those who go back, and those who go back can help those who stay here in the same way that when Jews go to Israel, the Jews in America help those in Israel and the Jews in Israel help those in America.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says number one, [Negro] must know - have a knowledge of himself. And this gives him confidence in himself. He - he has been brainwashed by the educational system that exists here in America to the point where he feels he was a savage in the jungle when he was - before he was brought here. And this destroys his morale.
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Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick.
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Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.
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Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical.
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No religion will ever make me forget the condition of our people in this country...No God, no religion, no nothing will make me forget it until it stops, until it's elimitnated. I want to make that point clear.
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The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.
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Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.
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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 whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.
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