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You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

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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Civil
Race
War

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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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If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.
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Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!
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Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so big that their own organization as such, by itself, can never come to a, can never come up with a solution.
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My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages, who brought about the period, or ushered in or initiated the atmosphere that brought into Europe the period known as the Renaissance.
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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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Stumbling isn't falling.
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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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And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago.
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The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution.
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America just reaped what it had been sowing.
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To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.
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[Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.
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Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
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[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.
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