American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.
Malcolm XThe same as in a German neighborhood, the stores are run by Germans, and in a Chinese neighborhood they're run by Chinese. In the negro neighborhood the businesses should be owned and operated by Negroes and, thereby, they would be creating employment for Negroes.
Malcolm XMost of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't.
Malcolm XIf you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.
Malcolm XThey [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.
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