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To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.
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All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.
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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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God is about to eliminate the white man from this earth.
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