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“It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in…” quote by Malcolm X — Download Open image

“It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'”

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