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Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does.

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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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Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.
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When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.
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New York white youth were killing victims that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.
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The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!
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When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.
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[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man re-evaluate himself. Don't change the white man's mind you can't change his mind. And that whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of America--America's conscience is bankrupt.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!
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I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.
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You are either free or not free
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?
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At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.
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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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