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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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If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.
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Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.
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If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.
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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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Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization.
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I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion.
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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.
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The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.
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You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself. The black brother is so brainwashed that he may reject the truth when he first hears it. You have to drop a little bit on him at a time, and wait a while to let that sink in before advancing to the next step
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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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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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