Malcolm X Quotes
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.
