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Malcolm X (1925–1965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.

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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

Children, Crippled, Education, Graduate, Minds, Teaching

To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.

Integration, Practicals, Admit, Practical, Say

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

Fulfilling, Function, Mean, Necessary, Politician, Set

Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization.

Organization, Movement, Ministers, Minister, Muslim

Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.

Done, Goal, Leader, Method, Wrapped

It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude.

Attitude, Condemned, Dark, Eye, Eyes, Making

His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master’s house out than the master himself would. But then you had another Negro out in the field. The house Negro was in the minority. The masses—the field Negroes were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he’d die. If his house caught on fire, they'd pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze.

Field, Fighting, Fire, Hurt, Majority, Pain

One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

Book, Brother, Forever, Read

If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine

Ashamed, Cured, Illness, Medicine, People, Suffering

If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How can people, a group of people, such as our people, who own no factories, have equal job opportunities competing against the race that owns the factories?The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

Fighting, Instance, Job, Jobs, Kings, Way

Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!

Believe, Enemies, Enemy, Everybody, Protect

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Battle, Believe, Freedom, Religious, Say

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

Crime, Criminal, Criminals, Disgrace, Remain

The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. And at no time did Moses in the Bible ever try and integrate the Hebrews into the Egyptian society or accept any hypocritical offers made by the slave master of that day.

America, Black, Hebrews, Man, Men

I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Brother, Brothers, Mother, Nice, Quiet, Things

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

Children, Failing, Fear, Learn, Lesson, Trying

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

Battle, Fighting, Fights, Men, Opposition

You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy.

Democracy, Hypocrisy, Seen

We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

Attitude, Behavior, Brother, Minds, Same, White

WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE THE TEXTURE OF YOUR HAIR? WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE THE COLOUR OF YOUR SKIN?

Hair, Hate, Skins, Texture

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