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I admire the, the stand of China and the stand of Mao Tse- tung, but I can't admire with respect the stand of, of Nehru in India. I just can't do it.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.
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Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doing for self & then Islam will provide the spiritual guidance. BN [Black Nationalism] will link us to Africa and Islam will link us spiritually to Africa, Arabia & Asia.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.
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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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[ Uncle Sam] is not sending 20 billion dollars to South America because he loves those people down here. He's sending it - sending it to them because he needs their friendship, he needs their allegion - their allegiance.
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The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference, they don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa practices and preaches the same thing.
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You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country?
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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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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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...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight.
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You don't integrate with a sinking ship.
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You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.
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[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.
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I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.
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Stumbling isn't falling.
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When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.
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Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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