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In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration, as they've been making an effort to do in this country for the past years, is also just as impractical.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed.
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If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.
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If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you see how the white man today has changed his tactics, but he still occupies the same position, in that same context you find Uncle Tom. He has changed his tactics but he still occupies the same position.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.
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Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.
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If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
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Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.
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The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.
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We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.
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Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!
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Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
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22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.
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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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They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.
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My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.
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