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I Would Like To Say That Whites Jumped Right Behind Malcolm X. They’re Makin’ A Book About Him, It’s Required Readin’ In All Colleges Now, And They’re Makin’ A Movie About Him, And Projectin’ Him As The Leader And If You Read His Book And See The Movie That’s Comin’ Out, It’ll Make You Hate Elijah Mohammed And The Muslims. Mainly, This Is Done To Turn The Black People Against The Real Leader And I’d Like To Say That This Is The Way White People Rule.

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I Would Like To Say That Whites Jumped Right Behind Malcolm X. They’re Makin’ A Book About Him, It’s Required Readin’ In All Colleges Now, And They’re Makin’ A Movie About Him, And Projectin’ Him As The Leader And If You Read His Book And See The Movie That’s Comin’ Out, It’ll Make You Hate Elijah Mohammed And The Muslims. Mainly, This Is Done To Turn The Black People Against The Real Leader And I’d Like To Say That This Is The Way White People Rule.

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I'll Tell You How I'd Like To Be Remembered: As A Black Man Who Won The Heavyweight Title - Who Has Humorous And Who Never Looked Down On Those Who Looked Up To Him - A Man Who Stood For Freedom, Justice And Equality - And I Wouldn't Even Mind If Folks Forgot How Pretty I Was.

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Martin Luther King Was Bumped Off Unjustly, Adam Clayton Powell Was Bumped Off Unjustly, They Took My Title Unjustly, They Killed Megers Ever Unjustly, All The Integrators Who Love White Folks, Was Unjustly Kicked Out Of Washington, They've Been Deprived Of Education And Poverty Throughout The Country.

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There Are More Pleasant Things To Do Than Beat Up People.

It's Lack Of Faith That Makes People Afraid Of Meeting Challenges, And I Believed In Myself.

The Teachings Of Elijah Muhammad On How Black People Have Been Brainwashed.how They've Been Taught To Love White And Hate Black, How We've Been Robbed Of Our Names In Slavery.we Were Robbed Of Our Culture, We Were Robbed Of Our True History. So It Left Us A Walking Dead Man.

Ain't No Reason For Me To Kill Nobody In The Ring, Unless They Deserve It.

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Nobody Has To Tell Me That This Is A Serious Business. I'm Not Fighting One Man. I'm Fighting A Lot Of Men, Showing A Lot Of 'em, Here Is One Man They Couldn't Defeat, Couldn't Conquer. My Mission Is To Bring Freedom To 30m Black People

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