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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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Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick.
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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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I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who accepted it and he said, Yes. So I asked him then what was it about it that he considered to be so danger, and he, dangerous, and he pointed out that it was the cohesiveness that it produced among the inmates. They stuck together.
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An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.
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Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out.
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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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All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.
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Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.
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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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I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind.
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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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Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.
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What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
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As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the school system is in the hands of the whites, you have a situation where the blacks are constantly begging the whites can they use this or can they use that. That's not any kind of equality of opportunity, nor does it lend toward one's dignity.
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[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.
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Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.
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The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!
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I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.
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The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community no more.
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
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