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My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.


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MALCOLM X Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time bef...
MALCOLM X I can imagine my future and I can recollect my past. In my future, I am imagining my future and I am...
UNKNOWN X Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
MALCOLM X If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
MALCOLM X To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, you...
MALCOLM X Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviol...
MALCOLM X Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
MALCOLM X And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.
MALCOLM X America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the...
MALCOLM X I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; an...
MALCOLM X My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfyi...
MALCOLM X Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I a...
MALCOLM X Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the rea...
MALCOLM X If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
MALCOLM X Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
MALCOLM X I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had...
MALCOLM X I actually believed that after living as fully as humanly possible, one should then die violently. I...
MALCOLM X I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man'...
MALCOLM X I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence
MALCOLM X We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the pr...
MALCOLM X Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
MALCOLM X That black, maddening firmament; that vast cosmic ocean, endlessly deep in every direction, both Hea...
MARK X. The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defense...
MALCOLM X Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the sa...
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