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I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.
Malcolm X
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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.
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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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Always that if was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.
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The common enemy is the white man.
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God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.
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I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.
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Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as it now stands will be forced to put, exercise more violent action to deprive the negro of his mature political action.
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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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