“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?”

— Malcolm X

The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)

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American human rights activist 1925–1965

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