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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. "
Malcolm X
Justice
Matter
Truth
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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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" If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years. "
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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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" You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. "
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" There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. "
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Religion
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" Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad. "
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" The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself. "
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