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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
Autobiographer
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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You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country?
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If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!
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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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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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I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed.
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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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Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
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Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.
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Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
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I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.
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Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.
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I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected
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Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!
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Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that no one would kill you quicker than Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do.
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