American - Activist | May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965
I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
Malcolm X
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.
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