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If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.

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
Political Activist
Politician
Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
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How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims.
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You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary.
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I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.
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You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.
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When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.
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We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are within our rights to protect themselves by whatever means necessary.
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...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
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There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.
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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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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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It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and criminal exploitation of the American negro from the color of the skin of the person who is the oppressor or the exploiter.
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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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I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.
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Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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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