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“Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.”

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Malcolm X was a prominent human rights activist, born on May 19, 1925, and died on February 21, 1965. He played a significant role in the civil rights movement, advocating for black self-liberation and rights. His ideas and actions have had a profound impact on future generations. more

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“Any time you know you're within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die for what you believe in. But don't die alone. Let your dying be reciprocal. This is what is meant by equality. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.”

Knows Believe Law Dies Justice Moral Rights Dying Accord Geese Reciprocal Legal Rights Gander

Author:Malcolm X

“X is not my real name. But if you study history, you'll find why no Black man in the Western Hemisphere knows his real name. Some of his ancestors kidnapped our ancestors from Africa and took us into the Western Hemisphere and sold us there, and our names were stripped from us and so today we don't know who we really are. I am one of those who admit it, and so I just put X up there to keep from wearing his name.”

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“There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.”

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Book:By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X

Source: By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X

“They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.”

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“Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist, then I'll get nonviolent. But don't teach me to be nonviolent until you teach some of those crackers to be nonviolent.”

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Source: By any means necessary

“They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."”

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Author:Malcolm X