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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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The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to protect ourselves, then it's the government that should be charged with the crime, because we're only upholding a law that they've been unable to uphold.
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
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I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.
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When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.
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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.
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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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A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.
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The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality.
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Only the mistakes were mine.
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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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When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they consider to be the enemy isn't there. So, they knock at his property. This is what makes them knock down the store windows and set fire to things, and things of that sort.
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Stumbling isn't falling.
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Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.
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As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.
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The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!
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The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.
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You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.
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Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
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