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I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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Muslim Minister
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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
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The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.
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I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.
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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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If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own problems, there won't be any explosion, and the Negroes who want to stay with the white man, let them stay with the white man - but those who want to leave, let them go to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.
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I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words
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Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned.
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We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.
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Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind.
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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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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.
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I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.
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White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts are designed to eliminate this, that or, or the next thing but, yet, it is never eliminated is in no way impressive to me.
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If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.
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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
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