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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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Human Rights Activist
Muslim Minister
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Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz
Malachi Shabazz
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
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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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I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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 had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.
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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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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.
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Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease
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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power the power of the dollar.
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Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.
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I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds .
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America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
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A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.
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Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.
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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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What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.
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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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