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Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

Malcolm X

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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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Omaha
Nebraska
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I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.
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My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.
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Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.
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When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going to be detrimental to all of them, they'll keep that, perhaps they'll then take the necessary steps to keep their fellow snakes away from my chickens or away from my children if the responsibility is placed upon them.
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That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck.
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When you are equal with another person, the problem of integration doesn't even arise.
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The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. And at no time did Moses in the Bible ever try and integrate the Hebrews into the Egyptian society or accept any hypocritical offers made by the slave master of that day.
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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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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
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People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.
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If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you see how the white man today has changed his tactics, but he still occupies the same position, in that same context you find Uncle Tom. He has changed his tactics but he still occupies the same position.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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Let's cool it, brothers.
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You don't integrate with a sinking ship.
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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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It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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