"I am not an American; I am..." - Quote by Malcolm X
I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.
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“If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.”
“Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.”
“I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”
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“I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.”
“A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.”
“Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.”