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Malcolm X1925–1965

You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get your freedom; then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.

Malcolm X on freedom

Advice to the Youth of Mississippi (December 31, 1964)

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A man only curses because he doesn’t know the words to express what is on his mind.
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Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.
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It’s going to be the ballot or the bullet.
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