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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.

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If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun.

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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

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

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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating 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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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: May 19th, 1925

Died: February 21st, 1965

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