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Malcolm X- Who Taught You to Hate Yourself.
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Malcolm X - You Can’t Hate the Roots Of A Tree.
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Speech on The Civil Rights Bill.
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No Such Thing As A None Violent Revolution - Malcom X
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Malcolm X — There is no such thing as a Bloodless Revolution.
“I’ll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.”

“He got the peace prize, we got the problem…. If I’m following a general, and he’s leading me into a battle, and the enemy tends to give him rewards, or awards, I get suspicious of him. Especially if he gets a peace award before the war is over.”
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MALCOLM X: Message To The Grass Roots (audio excerpt).
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I would like to make a few comments concerning the difference between the black revolution and the Negro revolution. There’s a difference. Are they both the same? And if they’re not, what is the difference? What is the difference between a black revolution and a Negro revolution? First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I’m inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word “revolution” loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.

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MALCOLM X: There’s a Worldwide Revolution Going On.
Malcolm X discusses his being barred entry to France and the goal of turning the human rights struggle into an international struggle. Incredibly prescient.
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