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• If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

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  Country, Baby, Children

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book by Malcolm X edited by George Breitman, 1965.

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• Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.

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  Matter, No Matter What, Accepted

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• What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist... You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.

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  Powerful, Men, Differences

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• To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

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  Political, Way, Action

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

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  Truth, Patriotism, Doe

  Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

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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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  Art, Stars, Men

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• I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

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  Believe, Thorough Understanding, People

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

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  Jobs, Rely Upon, Enemy

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits.

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  Cat, Biscuits, Kitten

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• In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

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  Success, Failure, Deeds

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.391, Ballantine Books

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• A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

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  Pride, Men, Race

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• [Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been.

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  Country, War, Enemy

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, it might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.

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  Past, Hands, People

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• Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

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  Freedom, Needs, Slavery

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, 1965.

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• The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

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  America, Black, Black Women

  Malcolm X's speech in Los Angeles, amara.org. May 5, 1962.

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• In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of his own, a God of his own, a language of his own. Most of all he must have love and devotion for his own kind.

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  Men, Order, Land

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.

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  War, Realizing

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• Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

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  Racism, Colonialism, Negative

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• The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

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  Men, White Man, Devil

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

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• You don't integrate with a sinking ship.

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  Ships, Integrating, Sinking

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits!

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  Country, Cat, Racism

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• To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

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  Gun, Hens, Too Much

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.234, Ballantine Books

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• An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

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  Coffee, Slave Labor, Years

  Malcolm X, Benjamin Karim (1971). “The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches”, p.147, Arcade Publishing

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• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

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  Race, America, Islam

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.347, Ballantine Books

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• Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

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  Thoughtful, White, People

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