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" I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence. "
Malcolm X
American
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" I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses. "
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" Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. "
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" You can't legislate good will - that comes through education. "
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" If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun. "
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" The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace. "
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Earth
God
" America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. "
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" Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. "
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Done
Two
Separation
" Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. "
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Back
Face
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" Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races. "
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" Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. "
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" History proves that the white man is a devil. "
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Man
Devil
History
" 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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America
American
" It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.' "
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You
American
Start
" Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. "
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Works
Long
Fine
" 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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Justice
You
Man
" White America is in the minority. "
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Minority
White
America
" My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. "
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Curiosity
Reading
Good
" If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality. "
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Dog
Equality
Rifle
" History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. "
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Memory
Man
History
" 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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Years
American
Racism
" Truth is on the side of the oppressed. "
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Truth
Oppressed
Side
" We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way. "
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" For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears. "
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" You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized. "
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Nothing
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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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Know
Real
" To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace. "
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Been
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Keep
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Ghetto
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